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Veniamin

Boys' name

Form of Benjamin

Veniamin has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 1999, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Veniamin, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Veniamin: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Benjamin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Veniamin means

Veniamin is a form of Benjamin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Veniamin is used in Russian and Greek.

Another recorded pronunciation is /vʲɪ.nʲɪ.ɐ.ˈmʲin/ for Veniamin.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Veniamin is a form of Benjamin. Benjamin has more than one origin or interpretation.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Russian Вениами́н (Veniamín). Doublet of Benjamin.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Veniamin (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Veniamin is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benjamin and Вениами́н.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 89 boys were recorded with the name Veniamin between 1997 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1999; its best national rank was #5,013 in 1999.

How common is Veniamin?

Veniamin 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 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Veniamin 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Veniamin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Veniamins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Veniamin was born before 2002 — so the typical Veniamin is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
60.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
89
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 60.7% of all recorded uses (54).

Is Veniamin 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (14)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,013
1999

Spellings of Veniamin

Veniamin is not the most common spelling — Benjamin is, with 99.9% against Veniamin'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.

Where Veniamin is used

Across 1910–2025, Veniamin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,029,466 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Washington1 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. Veniamin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Veniamin around the world

Where Veniamin 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
    1965–1965
    #574
    in 1965

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

Veniamin 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
#5,013
1999
Peak year
1999
14 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
89
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Veniamin

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

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Sibling names for Veniamin

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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