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Benedetto

#6,493 in 2025Boys' name

Blessed

Benedetto has been given to 881 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #6,493 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Benedetto, 2025

1 in 255,000

Benedetto over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benedetto: meaning, origin, and history

Blessed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Benedetto means

Benedetto means “blessed”, associated with benedictus.

Origin, language, and formation

Benedetto is used in Italian.

Benedetto comes through Ecclesiastical Latin Benedictus and Latin benedīcō.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benedict, Benoît, Benet, Benito and Bento.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Benedetto is pronounced /be.neˈdet.to/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 881 boys were recorded with the name Benedetto between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,446 in 1913.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,338 in 2020 to #6,493 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 Benedetto?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,493
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Benedetto sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benedetto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benedettos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benedetto was born before 1970 — so the typical Benedetto is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
12.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
578
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 12.0% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Benedetto 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
+3,540
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−155
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
61.9%
Peak was 1915 (21)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,446
1913

Where Benedetto is used

Across 1910–2025, Benedetto was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 114,845 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Benedetto has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Benedetto around the world

Where Benedetto 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
    2017–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • Scotland
    1986–1986
    #317
    in 1986
  • France
    1926–1977
    #2,341
    in 1977
  • South Australia
    1953–1960
    #468
    in 1960

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

Benedetto by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,493
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 155
Best rank ever
#1,446
1913
Peak year
1915
21 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
881
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Benedetto

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

BenyaminBentzionBenedictoBenjamynBenzionBenjamineBenjamenBenjieBenuelBenjimanBenaiahBentleighBenjamanBenjerminBenjamimBensenBentleeBenoitBennetBenjimenBenancioBenjiminBenicioBenedict

Sibling names for Benedetto

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

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