# Benedetto (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/benedetto/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 881 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 881 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 8 | 9,096 |
| 2009 | 11 | 7,275 |
| 2010 | 8 | 8,899 |
| 2012 | 7 | 9,824 |
| 2013 | 6 | 10,898 |
| 2014 | 7 | 9,759 |
| 2017 | 6 | 10,947 |
| 2018 | 14 | 6,072 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,006 |
| 2020 | 13 | 6,342 |
| 2021 | 10 | 7,666 |
| 2022 | 9 | 8,405 |
| 2023 | 11 | 7,345 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,038 |
| 2025 | 13 | 6,497 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |

## People named Benedetto

- Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Catholic cardinal (1879–1970)
- Benedetto I Zaccaria, Genoese admiral (c. 1235 – 1307)
- Benedetto, Prince of Savoy, Duke of Chablais
- Benedetto Accolti the Younger, cardinal
- Benedetto Erba Odescalchi, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (1679-1740)
- Benedetto Giustiniani, Catholic cardinal
- Benedetto Ubaldi, 17th-century Catholic cardinal
- Antonio Benedetto Antonucci, bishop of the Catholic Church (1798-1879)
- Benedetto Barberini, catholic cardinal
- Benedetto II Caetani, Catholic cardinal
- Benedetto Gentile Pevere, Doge of the Republic of Genoa
- Benedict of Nursia, founder of Christian monasticism, founder of the Benedictine order (480–547)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.