Benedito
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Benedito is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.4K◐
- ARArgentina1 in 498K
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈153K ●
- #790 ●
- Sources
- 160 ●
- 1 in 1.4K ◐
across 5 countries
of 16M given names
150K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #150 | 152,493 | 141K rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 214K | Benedito | 160 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,371 | 1.8K rec. | — | 134 | Benedito | 26 |
| AO Angola | #168 | 344 | 344 rec. | — | — | Benedito | 25 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 322 | 397 rec. | — | — | Benedito | 8 |
| IN India | — | 303 | 298 rec. | — | 22 | Benedito | 10 |
| MZ Mozambique | #28 | 201 | 61 rec. | — | 1 | Benedito | 25 |
| PT Portugal | — | 193 | 222 rec. | — | listed | Benedito | 48 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 159 | 201 rec. | — | — | Benedito | 11 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 148 | 2 rec. | — | 1 | Benedito | 4 |
| MX Mexico | — | 124 | 126 rec. | — | — | Benedito | 14 |
| US United States | — | 122 | 2.6K rec. | 1 in 2.7M | 154 | Benedito | 86 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 120 | 191 rec. | — | — | Benedito | 29 |
Roughly 152K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 1.4K). 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●
- Portuguese3.2M95%
- English154K5%
- Spanish2.8K1%
- ptbr6571%
- French3771%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 3,162,245 | 95% |
| English | 153,503 | 5% |
| Spanish | 2,774 | 1% |
| ptbr | 657 | 1% |
| French | 377 | 1% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 2 |
| 1940 | 8,622 |
| 1950 | 34,277 |
| 1960 | 77,403 |
| 1970 | 114,086 |
| 1980 | 133,357 |
| 1990 | 143,846 |
| 2000 | 148,894 |
| 2010 | 151,168 |
| 2020 | 152,174 |
| 2022 | 152,493 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Benedito Calixtob. 1853BRBrazilian artist (1853-1927)
- Belmonteb. 1896BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian painter, caricaturist, cartoonist, chronicler, and illustrator (1896-1947)
- Benedito Lacerdab. 1903BRBrazilian composer (1903–1958)
- Geraldo Ferrazb. 1905BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian journalist
- Benedito Domingos Vito Cosciab. 1922USBrazilian Roman Catholic bishop (1922–2008)
- Benedito Nunesb. 1929BRPhilosopher, critic (1929-2011)
- Benedito Ruy Barbosab. 1931BRBrazilian screenwriter and author (1931–2026)
- Benedito Robertob. 1946PTPortuguese archbishop (1946-2020)
- Assisb. 1952BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer and manager (1952–2014)
- Benedito Roberto Alvesb. 1960BRBrazilian politician
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 214K | #242 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 213K | #72 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 152K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 152K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 152K | #223 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 151K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 149K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 144K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 133K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 114K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 77K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 65K | #373 |
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 · 142 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Benedito?
- We estimate roughly 153 thousand people bear Benedito (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Benedito have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 152 thousand people bear Benedito in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled benedito.
- How common is Benedito compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Benedito is the 150th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- Is Benedito a male or female name?
- Benedito 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 Benedito mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict
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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.
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, “Benedito” — the 150th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.