Benedikt

Boys' name

Blessed

Benedikt has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2000, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Benedikt, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benedikt: meaning, origin, and history

Blessed

Latin

What Benedikt means

Benedikt means “blessed”, associated with benedictus.

Origin, language, and formation

Benedikt is used in Czech, German, Icelandic and Old Czech. Its origins include Latin.

Benedikt comes through Late Latin Benedictus and Latin benedictus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benedict.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Benedikt is pronounced [ˈbɛnɛdɪkt].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 55 boys were recorded with the name Benedikt between 2000 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2000; its best national rank was #8,284 in 2000.

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.

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How common is Benedikt?

Benedikt had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 552,000; 6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 285,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 382,940 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Benedikt 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benedikt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benedikts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benedikt was born before 2017 — so the typical Benedikt is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 56.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 55; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 56.4% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Benedikt 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 2000 (7)
Years since peak: 25; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,284; 2000

Spellings of Benedikt

Benedikt is not the most common spelling — Benedict is, with 99.5% against Benedikt's 0.52%.

Benedict99.5%10,475
Benedikt0.52%55

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.

Benedikt around the world

Where Benedikt 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
#5,137
in 2025
France
1994–1994
#3,255
in 1994

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.

Benedikt by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,284; 2000
Peak year: 2000; 7 that year
First recorded: 2000
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 55
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Benedikt

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

Benjamim Bensley Bentleigh Bengamin Benelli Benyomin Beniamin Bennington Benajmin Bennette Benjamyn Benedicto Benjman Bentlei Bentura Bentzion Benecio Benhamin Bentlie Bentzy Beniah Benjamon Benyamin Bennard

Sibling names for Benedikt

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

Madisen Nada Sydnie Sydni Savana Jackeline Gabriel Halie

For a brother

Donavon Kevon Keshawn Syed Koby Shamar Johnson Lars

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