Benedikt
Benedikt was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 55 Americans have been recorded with it between 2000 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benedikt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Benedikt mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Benedikt is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Benedict” Its etymology gives the senses “blessed” (benedictus) and “to speak well of, bless, praise” (benedīcō) and “well” (bene).
Borrowed from Late Latin Benedictus, from Latin benedictus (“blessed”), perfect passive participle of benedīcō (“to speak well of, bless, praise”), from bene (“well”) + dīcō (“to speak”).
/ˈbeːnəˌdɪkt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Benedikt?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,991, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
7 babies in 2000, the peak
Benedikt peaked in 2000, when 7 boys were given it, #8,283 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #10,991 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,955 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,252 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,391 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,806 | 3.8 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,685 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,864 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,943 | 3.2 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,283 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benedikt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benedikt has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benedikt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benedikt, and how old are they?
An estimated 54 Americans named Benedikt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 209 people named Benedikt (0 women and girls, 209 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 39 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 10,530 babies since 1880, Benedikt is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 305 babies recorded by SSA was a Benedikt (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Benedikt
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Benedikt and names like it
- Compare Benedikt and BenedictBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBenedikt peaked in 2000.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Benedikt: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Benedikt.
- Names starting with BMost given first.