Benedicta

Girls' name

Blessed, well spoken of, through Benedict

Benedicta has been given to 116 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Benedicta, 2019

1 in 694,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benedicta: meaning, origin, and history

Blessed, well spoken of, through Benedict

Latin

What Benedicta means

Benedicta belongs to the name family reached through Benedicta → Benedict. Its meaning is “blessed, well spoken of”.

Origin, language, and formation

Benedicta is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benedict.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 116 girls were recorded with the name Benedicta between 1913 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1916; its best national rank was #3,238 in 1913.

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 Benedicta?

Benedicta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 694,000; 5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only: 1 in 336,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,354 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Benedicta 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benedicta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benedictas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benedicta was born before 1928 — so the typical Benedicta is around 97 today.

Median birth year: 1928; About 97 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 40.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 47; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Benedicta 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1916 (8)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 11.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,238; 1913

Benedicta around the world

Where Benedicta 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
1998–2025
#5,927
in 2025
France
1911–1963
#2,082
in 1963

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Benedicta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,238; 1913
Peak year: 1916; 8 that year
First recorded: 1913
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 116
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Benedicta

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

Benedetta Bentleigh Benelli Bennette Bennet Bennetta Benisha Benigna Benicia Benni Bentlie Bentli Benson Bendetta Bentlee Bennita Benjamin Bennye Bently Benetta Beni Bentlei Benecia Benedicte

Sibling names for Benedicta

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

Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Ona

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Sydney Meyer

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