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Bengt

Boys' name

Blessed, through Benedictus

Bengt has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1973, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Bengt, 1973

1 in 503,000

Bengt over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bengt: meaning, origin, and history

Blessed, through Benedictus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bengt means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Bengt is used in Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benedict, Benedictus, Bent and Bennett.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Bengt between 1973 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1973; its best national rank was #4,557 in 1973.

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 Bengt?

Bengt had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1973
1 in 503,000
6 of 3,016,706 births
Among boys only
1 in 260,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1973
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,505 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bengt 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 1973 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 348,505 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bengt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bengts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bengt was born before 1973 — so the typical Bengt is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Bengt 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
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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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1973 (6)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,557
1973

Spellings of Bengt

Bengt is not the most common spelling — Brent is, with 35.2% against Bengt's <0.01%.

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.

Bengt around the world

Where Bengt 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.

  • Norway
    1880–1999
    #537
    in 1999

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Bengt 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
#4,557
1973
Peak year
1973
6 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
1973
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bengt

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

BenniBengiBenjeBentzBennitoBentzyBendjyBenasBenzelBennerBenleyBennitBenderBeneilBenhurBenekBenjinBenyBentelyBenyominBenhamBeniyasBenjiamBenardo

Sibling names for Bengt

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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