# Benedikt (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/benedikt/  
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 | 55 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 55 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 42, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7 | 8,291 |
| 2012 | 6 | 10,950 |
| 2014 | 6 | 10,870 |
| 2015 | 7 | 9,691 |
| 2017 | 7 | 9,811 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12,397 |
| 2020 | 5 | 12,259 |
| 2021 | 6 | 10,961 |
| 2023 | 6 | 10,996 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2007 | 6 | 2,741 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3,895 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Benedikt

- Benedikt Höwedes, German association football player
- Benedikt Doll, German biathlete
- Benedikt Wagner, German fencer
- Benedikt Röcker, German footballer
- Benedikt Rejt, German architect
- Benedikt Niese, German classical scholar (1849–1910)
- Benedikt Carpzov, German legal scientist (1595-1666)
- Benedikt Schack, Austrian opera singer and composer
- Benedikt Fernandez, German footballer
- Benedikt Roezl, Czech traveller, writer and gardener (1823–1885)
- Benedikt Sveinbjarnarson Gröndal
- Benedikt Gimber, association football player

## 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.