Benedictus

given name · Western Frisian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Benedictus is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latin 'the blessed'; source of many German surname forms.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 331◐
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 6.3K
  • NGNigeria1 in 8.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈20K ●

across 11 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
368 ●

284K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 20K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

BenedictLatin · English●169K records
ВенедиктCyrillic · Russian●7.3K records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Benedict in US United States, NG Nigeria, GB United Kingdom and 11 more, Венедикт in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more, Benedikt in IS Iceland, DK Denmark, SE Sweden and 1 more and Benedykt in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Latin 'the blessed'; source of many German surname forms

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Benedictus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—17,036191K rec.1 in 20K17KBenedict368
RU Russia—8,7733K rec.—#497Венедикт98
NG Nigeria#5948,66716K rec.——Benedict97
GB United Kingdom—8,54512K rec.—6Benedict163
IS Iceland—6,424175 rec.—1.1KBenedikt64
CA Canada—3,6104.9K rec.—5Benedict94
AU Australia—2,4536.5K rec.—3Benedict143
UA Ukraine—2,0482.3K rec.——Венедикт17
AR Argentina—1,838—1 in 25K1.8K——
DE Germany—1,6495.9K rec.—11Benedict152
PH Philippines—1,50717K rec.——Benedict123
MY Malaysia—1,2082.1K rec.——Benedict65

Roughly 17K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 20K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Western Frisian2.6K25%
  • Indonesian2.5K23%
  • English2.4K22%
  • Dutch2.3K21%
  • German2052%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Western Frisian2,64225%
Indonesian2,46823%
English2,41322%
Dutch2,27021%
German2052%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Benedictus is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name204 records spelled Benedictus3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Netherlands

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bénédictus

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Benedictus is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, The Gospel canticle of Zechariah (Luke 1:68–79), with the incipit Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel (“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel”).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, section of the Mass; pers. name,

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In German, from Latin benedictus 'blessed'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, patronymische Familiennamen zu Rufname Benedictus (Benedikt).

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In Latin, a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Benedict I, b. 525Benedict II, b. 635Benedict III, b. 810Benedict XI, b. 1240papa Benedetto XII, b. 1280Benedictus XIII, b. 1649Benedictus XIV, b. 1675Benedict XV, b. 1854Benedict XVI, b. 1927
  • Benedict Ib. 525ITnot in their usual namepope
  • Benedict IIb. 635ITnot in their usual namepope
  • Benedict IIIb. 810ITnot in their usual namepope (810-858)
  • Benedict XIb. 1240ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1303 to 1304
  • papa Benedetto XIIb. 1280FRnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church 1334–1342
  • Benedictus XIIIb. 1649ITpope of the Catholic Church from 1724 to 1730
  • Benedictus XIVb. 1675ITpope of the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1758
  • Benedict XVb. 1854ITnot in their usual namePope of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922
  • Benedict XVIb. 1927DEnot in their usual name265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013)
  • Benedictus IXITPope of the Catholic Church

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Benedictus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—2K#692
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—687#2,619
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007355#5,709
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—40#10,114
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—40#10,846
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—28#12,009
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—21#22,430
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—18#26,595
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—11—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20088#78,922
NA NamibiaECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates20254#25
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#22,694

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Benedictus?
We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Benedictus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Benedictus have the most bearers?
We estimate about 17 thousand people bear Benedictus in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled benedict.
How common is Benedictus compared with other names?
In New Zealand, Benedictus is the 446th most common surname of 79,003 surnames recorded there.
Is Benedictus a male or female name?
Benedictus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Benedictus mean?
Recorded meaning: Latin 'the blessed'; source of many German surname forms
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Benedictus” — the 446th most common surname in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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