Benedetta

#12,110 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Benedict

Benedetta has been given to 421 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #12,110 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Benedetta, 2025

1 in 474,000

Benedetta over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benedetta: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Benedict

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Benedetta means

Benedetta is a feminine form of Benedict.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Benedetta is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /be.ne.ˈdet.ta/ for Benedetta.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Benedetta → Benedict. The family’s meaning is “blessed, well spoken of”, recorded in English with the source elements benedictus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benedict and Benedicta.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 421 girls were recorded with the name Benedetta between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1921; its best national rank was #1,573 in 1906.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,251 in 2020 to #12,110 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Benedetta?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 230,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #12,110; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Benedetta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benedetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benedettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benedetta was born before 1931 — so the typical Benedetta is around 94 today.

Median birth year: 1931; About 94 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 9.5%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 169; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Benedetta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +254; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −859; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 38.9%; Peak was 1921 (18)
Years since peak: 104; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,573; 1906

Where Benedetta is used

Across 1910–2025, Benedetta was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 116,882 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Benedetta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Benedetta around the world

Where Benedetta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2005–2022
#5,670
in 2022
France
1905–2025
#5,936
in 2025
South Australia
1982–1982
#670
in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Benedetta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #12,110
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 859
Best rank ever: #1,573; 1906
Peak year: 1921; 18 that year
First recorded: 1906
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 421
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Benedetta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Benedetta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Idella Adell Vina Mozelle Kattie Tressie Garnet Eddie

For a brother

Dewitt Granville Eldridge Trinidad Delmer Vern Lyman Waldo

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