Benjamim
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Benjamim is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 64th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Benjamin (the youngest son of Jacob).
- BRBrazil1 in 5.7K◐
- MZMozambique1 in 1.4K
- AOAngola1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈37K ●
- Sources
- 97 ●
- 1 in 5.7K ◐
across 7 countries
18K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
Benjamin (the youngest son of Jacob)
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 36,890△ | 16K rec. | 1 in 5.7K | 37K | Benjamim | 97 |
| PT Portugal | #811 | 626 | 223 rec. | — | listed | Benjamim | 52 |
| AO Angola | #118 | 485 | 479 rec. | — | — | Benjamim | 31 |
| US United States | — | 311 | 887 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 311 | Benjamim | 70 |
| AR Argentina | — | 192 | 136 rec. | — | 2 | Benjamim | 21 |
| MZ Mozambique | #64 | 106 | 91 rec. | — | — | Benjamim | 23 |
| DE Germany | — | 91 | 98 rec. | — | 1 | Benjamim | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 86 | 85 rec. | — | — | Benjamim | 23 |
| CL Chile | — | 82 | 58 rec. | — | 1 | Benjamim | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | 55 | 56 rec. | — | — | Benjamim | 25 |
| MX Mexico | — | 43 | 39 rec. | — | — | Benjamim | 11 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 33 | 48 rec. | — | — | Benjamim | 9 |
Roughly 37K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 5.7K). 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●
- Portuguese273K87%
- English38K12%
- Spanish4441%
- French2301%
- German1061%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 273,246 | 87% |
| English | 37,842 | 12% |
| Spanish | 444 | 1% |
| French | 230 | 1% |
| German | 106 | 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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 9 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2021 | 10 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2025 | 13 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 11 years between 1985–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Benjamim Harris Hunnicuttb. 1886USagronomist (1886-1962)
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 37K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 36K | #711 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 19K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 18K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6K | #1,947 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.3K | #3,723 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 4.2K | #1,373 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 3.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 3.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 2.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 2.5K | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 74 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Benjamim?
- We estimate roughly 37 thousand people bear Benjamim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Benjamim have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 37 thousand people bear Benjamim in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled benjamim.
- How common is Benjamim compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Benjamim is the 64th most common given name of 1,105 given names recorded there.
- Is Benjamim a male or female name?
- Benjamim 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 Benjamim mean?
- Recorded meaning: Benjamin (the youngest son of Jacob)
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/benjamimThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Benjamim” — the 64th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.