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Benedicta

Latin roots

feminineLatin script

[beneˈð̞ikt̪a] · Spanish

Origin: Latin
6 language contexts: English Spanish Finnish +3 more
Follow the evidence: 9 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Benedicta

Benedicta is a feminine given name documented in English, Spanish, Finnish and 3 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Benedicta.

Latin origin

Source-reported

From Latin Benedicta, feminine of Benedictus. By surface analysis, Benedict + -a.

Sources for this account (7)

Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Benedicta is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

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countries in our sources

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5 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2019: 5 girls (rank 15539). Documented as a given name in English.

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4 of 16 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Benedicta

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2019: 5; applications; Rank #15,539
Peak year: 1916; 8 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Benedicta in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	5	3,187	observed
1914	5	3,618	observed
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	8	3,258	observed
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	7	3,817	observed
1920	8	3,598	observed
1921	7	4,023	observed
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	6	4,434	observed
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	6	4,306	observed
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	6	4,195	observed
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	5	4,331	observed
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	6	3,802	observed
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	5	13,724	observed
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	5	15,784	observed
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	5	16,992	observed
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	7	13,150	observed
2014	6	14,558	observed
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	8	11,781	observed
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	6	13,793	observed
2019	5	15,539	observed
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Benedicta” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Benedicta— “blessed”
There was a Visigothic nun in Spain canonized as Benedicta, but most of the feminines were meant in devotion to the original founder of the Benedictine rule. Indeed, in France, Benedicte must have been far more often assigned on the profession of a nun than have been given in baptism, except when the child was destined from her birth to a conventual life.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter VI (Modern Names From The Latin), Section II (Names from Beo) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

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06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q21147545CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spanish Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter VI (Modern Names From The Latin), Section II (Names from Beo)Public domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates6

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Benedicta

Benedicta is a feminine given name documented in English, Spanish, Finnish and 3 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Benedicta.

Latin origin

Source-reported

From Latin Benedicta, feminine of Benedictus. By surface analysis, Benedict + -a.

Sources for this account (7)

Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Benedicta is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Benedicta’s connections around the world.

5 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2019: 5 girls (rank 15539). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 16 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Benedicta

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2019: 5; applications; Rank #15,539
Peak year: 1916; 8 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Benedicta in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	5	3,187	observed
1914	5	3,618	observed
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	8	3,258	observed
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	7	3,817	observed
1920	8	3,598	observed
1921	7	4,023	observed
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	6	4,434	observed
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	6	4,306	observed
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	6	4,195	observed
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	5	4,331	observed
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	6	3,802	observed
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	5	13,724	observed
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	5	15,784	observed
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	5	16,992	observed
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	7	13,150	observed
2014	6	14,558	observed
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	8	11,781	observed
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	6	13,793	observed
2019	5	15,539	observed
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Benedicta— “blessed”
There was a Visigothic nun in Spain canonized as Benedicta, but most of the feminines were meant in devotion to the original founder of the Benedictine rule. Indeed, in France, Benedicte must have been far more often assigned on the profession of a nun than have been given in baptism, except when the child was destined from her birth to a conventual life.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter VI (Modern Names From The Latin), Section II (Names from Beo) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q21147545CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spanish Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: BenedictaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter VI (Modern Names From The Latin), Section II (Names from Beo)Public domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates6

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Benedicta

About Benedicta

Latin origin

Where Benedicta is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Benedict

Benedetta

Benedikta

Benedykta

Benita

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Benedicta

About Benedicta

Latin origin

Where Benedicta is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Benedict

Benedetta

Benedikta

Benedykta

Benita

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Benedicta

Latin origin

Where Benedicta is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Benedicta

Latin origin

Where Benedicta is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page