Benedikt
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Benedikt is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in German and Icelandic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ) Benedict: in Deutschland seit dem 8.
- ATAustria1 in 980◐
- DEGermany1 in 2.6K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 6.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.0K ●
- Sources
- 219 ●
- 1 in 332 ◐
across 13 countries
46K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
) Benedict: in Deutschland seit dem 8. Jh. belegter männl. Vom. lateini schen Ursprungs (lat. benedictus »gepriesen, gesegnet«). Die Verbreitung des Namens geht zurück auf den heiHgen Benediktus von Nursia (5-/6. Jh.), den Vater des abend ländischen
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #398 | 47,430 | 39K rec. | — | 11 | Benedikt | 219 |
| AT Austria | #177 | 16,879 | 1.5K rec. | — | 4.7K | Benedikt | 120 |
| CH Switzerland | #515 | 1,236 | 549 rec. | — | 19 | Benedikt | 67 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1,055△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 332 | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 962 | 0 rec. | 1 in 11K | 962 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 386 | 287 rec. | — | listed | Benedikt | 54 |
| AU Australia | — | 366 | 385 rec. | — | — | Benedikt | 37 |
| BE Belgium | — | 327 | 275 rec. | — | 13 | Benedikt | 33 |
| US United States | — | 209 | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 1.6M | 209 | Benedikt | 135 |
| SE Sweden | — | 207△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 49K | 207 | — | 14 |
| HR Croatia | — | 175 | — | 1 in 24K | 203 | — | — |
| IN India | — | 106 | 68 rec. | — | 15 | Benedikt | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German67K77%
- Icelandic6.5K7%
- Czech4.6K5%
- English1.6K2%
- Croatian1.4K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 67,288 | 77% |
| Icelandic | 6,491 | 7% |
| Czech | 4,612 | 5% |
| English | 1,576 | 2% |
| Croatian | 1,435 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1984 | 54 |
| 1985 | 63 |
| 1986 | 56 |
| 1987 | 96 |
| 1988 | 95 |
| 1989 | 99 |
| 1990 | 104 |
| 1991 | 107 |
| 1992 | 78 |
| 1993 | 113 |
| 1994 | 142 |
| 1995 | 126 |
| 1996 | 140 |
| 1997 | 137 |
| 1998 | 138 |
| 1999 | 151 |
| 2000 | 127 |
| 2001 | 127 |
| 2002 | 95 |
| 2003 | 133 |
| 2004 | 126 |
| 2005 | 148 |
| 2006 | 107 |
| 2007 | 77 |
| 2008 | 113 |
| 2009 | 99 |
| 2010 | 86 |
| 2011 | 86 |
| 2012 | 87 |
| 2013 | 108 |
| 2014 | 115 |
| 2015 | 142 |
| 2016 | 136 |
| 2017 | 138 |
| 2018 | 174 |
| 2019 | 157 |
| 2020 | 136 |
| 2021 | 131 |
| 2022 | 116 |
| 2023 | 109 |
| 2024 | 105 |
AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 41 years between 1984–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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 de Spinozab. 1632NLnot in their usual nameDutch philosopher (1632-1677)
- Joseph von Eichendorffb. 1788PLnot in their usual nameGerman poet and novelist (1788-1857)
- Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollernb. 1924DEnot in their usual nameHead of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1924-2010)
- Bent Larsenb. 1935DKnot in their usual nameDanish chess grandmaster and author (1935–2010)
- Benedict Andersonb. 1936IEnot in their usual nameAmerican political scientist (1936-2015)
- Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollernb. 1952DEnot in their usual namePrince of Hohenzollern
- Benedikt Höwedesb. 1988DEGerman association football player
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 60 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 4.7K | #72 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1.1K | #128 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 962 | #493 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 866 | #40 |
| IS Iceland | Statistics Iceland — Names (1703–present) | — | 866 | #40 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 679 | #51 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 564 | #2,540 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 481 | #552 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 232 | #3,183 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 228 | #4,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 209 | #37,394 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 207 | #5,119 |
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 · 215 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Benedikt?
- We estimate roughly 3.0 thousand people bear Benedikt (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Benedikt have the most bearers?
- Benedikt is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled benedikt.
- Where is Benedikt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Benedikt is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 332 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Benedikt compared with other names?
- In Germany, Benedikt is the 398th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- Is Benedikt a male or female name?
- Benedikt 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 Benedikt mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Benedict: in Deutschland seit dem 8.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Benedikt” — the 398th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.