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Benoit

#6,496 in 2025Boys' name

Blessed; well spoken of, through Benoît

Benoit has been given to 386 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #6,496 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Benoit, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benoit: meaning, origin, and history

Blessed; well spoken of, through Benoît

French

What Benoit means

Benoit belongs to the name family reached through Benoit → Benoît. Its meaning is “blessed; well spoken of”.

Origin, language, and formation

Benoit is used in English. Its origins include French.

Benoit comes through French Benoît.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benedict and Benoît.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Benoit is pronounced /bɛnˈwɑː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 386 boys were recorded with the name Benoit between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1922; its best national rank was #2,253 in 1922.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,687 in 2015 to #6,496 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.

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How common is Benoit?

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
#6,496
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Benoit 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 Benoit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benoits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benoit was born before 1948 — so the typical Benoit is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
189
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Choose a decade

1920s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Benoit 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
+3,191
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.86×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.9%
Peak was 1922 (14)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,253
1922

Spellings of Benoit

Benoit is not the most common spelling — Bennie is, with 72.1% against Benoit's 0.53%.

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 Benoit is used

Across 1910–2025, Benoit was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 1,122,258 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 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. Benoit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Benoit around the world

Where Benoit 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
    1996–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    1900–2025
    #1,117
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #949
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1983–2011
    #487
    in 2011

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

Benoit by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,496
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,253
1922
Peak year
1922
14 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
386
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Benoit

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

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Sibling names for Benoit

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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