Benedicto

#12,279 in 2025Boys' name

Blessed, through Benedictus

Benedicto has been given to 195 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #12,279 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Benedicto, 2025

1 in 663,000

Benedicto over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benedicto: meaning, origin, and history

Blessed, through Benedictus

Latin and Spanish

What Benedicto means

Benedicto belongs to the name family reached through Benedicto → Benedictus. Its meaning is “blessed”.

Origin, language, and formation

Benedicto is used in Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Latin and Spanish.

Benedicto comes through Latin Benedictus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benedict, Benito and Benedictus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Benedicto is pronounced /beneˈdiɡto/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 195 boys were recorded with the name Benedicto between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1963; its best national rank was #2,876 in 1963.

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 Benedicto?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #12,279; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Benedicto 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benedicto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benedictos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benedicto was born before 1986 — so the typical Benedicto is around 39 today.

Median birth year: 1986; About 39 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 29.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 177; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Benedicto 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: 55.6%; Peak was 1963 (9)
Years since peak: 62; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,876; 1963

Spellings of Benedicto

Benedicto is not the most common spelling — Benedict is, with 90.7% against Benedicto's 1.7%.

Benedict90.7%10,475
Benedetto7.6%881
Benedicto1.7%195

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Benedicto is used

Across 1910–2025, Benedicto was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Benedicto has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Benedicto around the world

Where Benedicto 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.

South Australia
2002–2002
#606
in 2002

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Benedicto by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #12,279
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #2,876; 1963
Peak year: 1963; 9 that year
First recorded: 1921
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 195
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Benedicto

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

Bentleigh Benjermin Benjamim Benjamyn Benedetto Benjerman Bennington Bentzion Benyamin Bensyn Benancio Benjimin Benjimen Beniah Benett Bensley Benoit Bensen Bence Bento Benzion Benedikt Benford Bengamin

Sibling names for Benedicto

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

Kandy Lolita Jonna Deidre Lauri Juliann Treva Nichelle

For a brother

Mitch Toney Tod Rob Tracey Hayward Deron Lonny

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