Benedykt
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Benedykt is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict.
- 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 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 368 ●
- 1 in 20K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
284K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
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 Benedictus in NL Netherlands, ZA South Africa.
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●
a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 17,036 | 191K rec. | 1 in 20K | 17K | Benedict | 368 |
| RU Russia | — | 8,773 | 3K rec. | — | #497 | Венедикт | 98 |
| NG Nigeria | #594 | 8,667 | 16K rec. | — | — | Benedict | 97 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 8,545 | 12K rec. | — | 6 | Benedict | 163 |
| IS Iceland | — | 6,424 | 175 rec. | — | 1.1K | Benedikt | 64 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,610 | 4.9K rec. | — | 5 | Benedict | 94 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,453 | 6.5K rec. | — | 3 | Benedict | 143 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 2,048 | 2.3K rec. | — | — | Венедикт | 17 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,838 | — | 1 in 25K | 1.8K | — | — |
| DE Germany | — | 1,649 | 5.9K rec. | — | 11 | Benedict | 152 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,507 | 17K rec. | — | — | Benedict | 123 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,208 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | Benedict | 65 |
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●
- Polish47K98%
- English3701%
- German2041%
- Ukrainian921%
- Finnish631%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 46,512 | 98% |
| English | 370 | 1% |
| German | 204 | 1% |
| Ukrainian | 92 | 1% |
| Finnish | 63 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Benedykt is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zlw-opl, herb bennet (Geum urbanum)
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●
- Benedykt Paweł Sapiehab. 1643BYmilitary personnel, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Benedykt Chmielowskib. 1700UAPolish priest and encyclopedist (1700-1763)
- Antoni Benedykt Lubomirskib. 1718PLPolish general
- Bengt Erland Fogelbergb. 1786SEnot in their usual nameSwedish sculptor (1786–1854)
- Benedykt Dybowskib. 1833UAPolish physician and naturalist (1833-1930)
- Benedykt Henryk Tyszkiewiczb. 1852PLPolish photographer
- Benedykt Hertzb. 1872PLPolish writer (1872–1952)
- Benediktas Jonas Tiškevičiusb. 1875PLnot in their usual name1875 - 1952
- Stanisław Budzikb. 1952PLnot in their usual namePolish archbishop
- Benedykt Kocotb. 1954PLPolish cyclist
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 12K | #110 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6.1K | #213 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 55 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 55 | #46,326 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 52 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 52 | #48,623 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 43 | #9,452 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 34 | #14,937 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,492 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | — | 23 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #25,951 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 13 | #3,005 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 42 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Benedykt?
- We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Benedykt (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Benedykt have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 17 thousand people bear Benedykt in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled benedict.
- How common is Benedykt compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Benedykt is the 446th most common surname of 79,003 surnames recorded there.
- Is Benedykt a male or female name?
- Benedykt 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 Benedykt 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, “Benedykt” — the 446th most common surname in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.