Benedikt
The boy's name Benedikt has been in the national records since 2000, with 55 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 50 Benedikts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Benedikt
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 55
- Estimated living today
- 50
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2000
- Best rank
- 8,209th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 2000
How old the living Benedikts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 55 babies given the name since 2000, about 50 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Benedikts
- Benedikt Höwedes (born 1988)German association football player
- Benedikt Doll (born 1990)German biathlete
- Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal (1924–2010)Icelandic politician
- Benedikt Kotruljević (1416–1469)Ragusan economist
- Benedikt Wagner (born 1990)German fencer
- Benedikt Erlingsson (born 1969)Icelandic film actor and director
- Benedikt Röcker (born 1989)German footballer
- Benedikt Rejt (1454–1534)German architect
People named Benedikt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2000
The most popular boys’ names the year Benedikt peaked:
Benedikt elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Benedikt | 1,939 | 52nd |
| Switzerland boys | Benedikt | 225 | 369th |
| England and Wales boys | Benedikt | 42 | 2,741st |
| France boys | Benedikt | 5 | 3,255th |
| Poland boys | Benedikt | 5 birth registrations | 510th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Benedikt: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Benedikt | 216 | 0.017% | 278th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Benedikt | 8 | 0.002% | 594th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Benedikt | 1 | 0.027% | 13th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Benedikt is most concentrated in Aargau, where 0.02% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Benedikt by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 134 | 127th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Benedikt among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Benedikt | 7 | 54 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Benedikt against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.