Binyamin
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Binyamin is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 46th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von.
- ILIsrael1 in 391◐
- USUnited States1 in 549
- LBLebanon1 in 3.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈905K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 124 ●
- 1 in 424 ◐
across 16 countries
recorded for this name
296K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled בנימין in US United States, IL Israel, AR Argentina and 7 more, Benjamin in ES Spain, GB United Kingdom, NG Nigeria and בנג'מין in FR France, BR Brazil.
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●
männl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 20 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 | — | 605,580△ | 11K rec. | 1 in 549 | 606K | בנימין | 124 |
| IL Israel | #46 | 172,635 | 238K rec. | — | 5.9K | בנימין | 50 |
| FR France | — | 152,355△ | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 445 | 152K | בנג'מין | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 52,082△ | 316 rec. | 1 in 4.1K | 52K | בנג'מין | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 18,660△ | 55 rec. | 1 in 547 | 19K | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 15,420△ | 42 rec. | 1 in 3.2K | 15K | Benjamin | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 13,137△ | 103 rec. | 1 in 424 | 15K | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 12,471△ | 100 rec. | 1 in 471 | 12K | — | 3 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 11,064△ | 12 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 9,219△ | 554 rec. | 1 in 593 | 33K | — | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 5,186 | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 7.4K | 5.2K | בנימין | 4 |
| HU Hungary | — | 4,525△ | 800 rec. | 1 in 2.2K | 4.5K | — | 3 |
Roughly 606K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 549). 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●
- Turkish2.2K28%
- English1.5K19%
- Hebrew88311%
- French3695%
- Hindi3574%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 2,226 | 28% |
| English | 1,489 | 19% |
| Hebrew | 883 | 11% |
| French | 369 | 5% |
| Hindi | 357 | 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●
Binyamin 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.
Lucky,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
Jewish: modern Hebrew form of BENJAMIN .
as a word
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 |
|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 10 |
| 1989 | 12 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 15 |
| 1992 | 15 |
| 1993 | 11 |
| 1994 | 19 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1996 | 16 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 13 |
| 1999 | 15 |
| 2000 | 17 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 23 |
| 2003 | 21 |
| 2004 | 16 |
| 2005 | 17 |
| 2006 | 28 |
| 2007 | 20 |
| 2008 | 29 |
| 2009 | 33 |
| 2010 | 30 |
| 2011 | 33 |
| 2012 | 33 |
| 2013 | 34 |
| 2014 | 35 |
| 2015 | 40 |
| 2016 | 51 |
| 2017 | 36 |
| 2018 | 45 |
| 2019 | 39 |
| 2020 | 40 |
| 2021 | 47 |
| 2022 | 45 |
| 2023 | 56 |
| 2024 | 63 |
| 2025 | 53 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 44 years between 1978–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Binyamin Arditib. 1897ILIsraeli politician (1897-1981)
- Binyamin Sassonb. 1903ILIsraeli politician
- Benjamin Mazarb. 1906ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli historian and biblical archaeologist (1906-1995)
- Binyamin Avnielb. 1906ILIsraeli politician (1906-1993)
- Benjamin Giblib. 1919ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli intelligence officer (1919–2008)
- Benjamin Ben-Eliezerb. 1936ILnot in their usual nameIraqI-Israeli military officer and politician (1936-2016)
- Benjamin Z. Kedarb. 1938ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli historian
- Binyamin Temkinb. 1945MXMexican-Israeli politician
- Benjamin Netanyahub. 1949ILnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Israel (born 1949), (1996–1999; 2009–2021; 2022–present)
- Binyomin Jacobsb. 1949NLnot in their usual nameDutch rabbi
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 38 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 744 | #15,455 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 109 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 76 | #9,257 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 63 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 56 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 53 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 51 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 47 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 45 | #14,620 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 45 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 45 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 40 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 143 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Binyamin?
- We estimate roughly 905 thousand people bear Binyamin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Binyamin have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 606 thousand people bear Binyamin in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled בנימין.
- How common is Binyamin compared with other names?
- In Israel, Binyamin is the 46th most common given name of 97,862 given names recorded there.
- Is Binyamin a male or female name?
- Binyamin 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 Binyamin mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von
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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, “Binyamin” — the 46th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.