Bengt
given name · Swedish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bengt is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swedish and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict.
- SESweden1 in 125◐
- DKDenmark1 in 381
- NONorway1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈102K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 126 ●
- 1 in 125 ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
22K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled เบนท์ in TH Thailand.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #56 | 81,413△ | 12K rec. | 1 in 125 | 81K | Bengt | 126 |
| DK Denmark | — | 15,420△ | 77 rec. | 1 in 381 | 15K | Bengt | 47 |
| NO Norway | #562 | 2,050 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 2.7K | 5.7K | Bengt | 59 |
| FI Finland | #700 | 1,974△ | 218 rec. | 1 in 2.8K | 4.2K | Bengt | 30 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,330 | 1.1K rec. | — | listed | Bengt | 85 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 494 | 351 rec. | — | — | Bengt | 31 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 493△ | 82 rec. | 1 in 35K | 493 | Bengt | 21 |
| BJ Benin | #20 | 346 | 312 rec. | — | — | Bengt | 7 |
| AU Australia | — | 323 | 307 rec. | — | — | Bengt | 34 |
| US United States | — | 317 | 4.4K rec. | 1 in 1M | 5.9K | Bengt | 118 |
| TH Thailand | — | 258 | 180 rec. | — | #902,804 | เบนท์ | 31 |
| BR Brazil | — | 195 | 33 rec. | — | 421 | Bengt | 27 |
Roughly 81K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 125). 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●
- Swedish24K39%
- Finnish16K27%
- English4.9K8%
- Norwegian Bokmål4K6%
- Norwegian2.3K4%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swedish | 23,886 | 39% |
| Finnish | 16,370 | 27% |
| English | 4,857 | 8% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 3,974 | 6% |
| Norwegian | 2,261 | 4% |
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●
Bengt is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Bengt är en nordisk (särskilt svensk) form av latinets Benedictus ’den välsignade’. Det latinska namnet är känt i Sverige sedan 1100-talet. Jämför även det finska → Pentti. Bengt var det fjärde vanligaste tilltalsnamnet givet till pojkar under 1930- och 1940-talet. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 21 mars, efter den helige Benedictus av Nursia (död 547).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom., schwedische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 25 |
| 1946 | 22 |
| 1947 | 37 |
| 1948 | 36 |
| 1949 | 43 |
| 1950 | 39 |
| 1951 | 33 |
| 1952 | 40 |
| 1953 | 46 |
| 1954 | 39 |
| 1955 | 53 |
| 1956 | 49 |
| 1957 | 39 |
| 1958 | 50 |
| 1959 | 54 |
| 1960 | 54 |
| 1961 | 58 |
| 1962 | 44 |
| 1963 | 62 |
| 1964 | 55 |
| 1965 | 56 |
| 1966 | 48 |
| 1967 | 57 |
| 1968 | 54 |
| 1969 | 51 |
| 1970 | 48 |
| 1971 | 55 |
| 1972 | 48 |
| 1973 | 53 |
| 1974 | 36 |
| 1975 | 39 |
| 1976 | 45 |
| 1977 | 30 |
| 1978 | 32 |
| 1979 | 21 |
| 1980 | 25 |
| 1981 | 14 |
| 1982 | 16 |
| 1983 | 16 |
| 1984 | 13 |
| 1985 | 15 |
| 1986 | 14 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 13 |
| 1989 | 10 |
| 1990 | 11 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1999 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 51 years between 1945–1999. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstiernab. 1623SESwedish statesman. (1623-1702)
- Bengt Strömgrenb. 1908SEDanish astronomer (1908-1987)
- Bengt Ekerotb. 1920SESwedish actor and director (1920–1971)
- Bengt Danielssonb. 1921SESwedish ethnographer and anthropologist (1921–1997)
- Axel Leijonhufvudb. 1933SEnot in their usual nameSwedish economist (1933–2022)
- Bengt Samuelssonb. 1934SESwedish biochemist
- Ronnie Petersonb. 1944SEnot in their usual nameSwedish racing driver (1944-1978)
- Bengt Holmströmb. 1949FIFinnish economist and Nobel laureate
- Bengt Gomérb. 1964SESwedish scenographer
- Sebastian Larssonb. 1985SEnot in their usual nameSwedish 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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 81K | #37 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 68K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 66K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 65K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 63K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 62K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 61K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 59K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 58K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 56K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 55K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 54K | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 204 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bengt?
- We estimate roughly 102 thousand people bear Bengt (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bengt have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 81 thousand people bear Bengt in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bengt.
- Where is Bengt most common?
- Bengt is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 125 people carrying it.
- How common is Bengt compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Bengt is the 56th most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.
- Is Bengt a male or female name?
- Bengt 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 Bengt 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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bengt” — the 56th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.