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Bengt

“blessed, well spoken of”

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Swedish

Origin: Late Latin
6 language contexts: French German Swedish +3 more
Follow the evidence: 9 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Bengt

Bengt is a masculine given name documented in French, German, Swedish and 3 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Late Latin Benedictus. It is a form of Benedict, for which English Wiktionary gives the meaning “blessed, well spoken of”.

Late Latin origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “blessed, well spoken of”

Contraction of Late Latin Benedictus. First recorded in Sweden as Benkt in 1364. Cognate with Danish Bent and English Bennett.

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: BenedictCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

02 / Across borders

Where Bengt is used

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

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

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

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

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 1973: 6 boys (rank 4505).

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

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

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Bengt

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 1999: 4; births; Rank #537
Peak year: 1963; 62 births

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

Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

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

Show the data table

Bengt in Norway, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	25	164	observed
1946	22	183	observed
1947	37	132	observed
1948	36	140	observed
1949	43	120	observed
1950	39	130	observed
1951	33	141	observed
1952	40	128	observed
1953	46	115	observed
1954	39	130	observed
1955	53	113	observed
1956	49	117	observed
1957	39	133	observed
1958	50	122	observed
1959	54	114	observed
1960	54	119	observed
1961	58	113	observed
1962	44	136	observed
1963	62	112	observed
1964	55	120	observed
1965	56	121	observed
1966	48	143	observed
1967	57	125	observed
1968	54	133	observed
1969	51	138	observed
1970	48	151	observed
1971	55	141	observed
1972	48	155	observed
1973	53	148	observed
1974	36	183	observed
1975	39	174	observed
1976	45	158	observed
1977	30	203	observed
1978	32	199	observed
1979	21	241	observed
1980	25	222	observed
1981	14	305	observed
1982	16	296	observed
1983	16	298	observed
1984	13	346	observed
1985	15	305	observed
1986	14	325	observed
1987	8	459	observed
1988	13	340	observed
1989	10	397	observed
1990	11	388	observed
1991	9	409	observed
1992	5	524	observed
1993	6	491	observed
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	6	473	observed
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	4	537	observed
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
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	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
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 “Bengt” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. 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: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

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
Bengt— “blessed”
Bengt, _Swed._ Lat. blessed, 184
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Bengt Holmström
born 1949
Finnish economist and Nobel laureate
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Bengt I. Samuelsson
1934–2024
Swedish biochemist
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Bengt Strömgren
1908–1987
Danish astronomer (1908-1987)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Bengt Gustavsson
1928–2017
Swedish footballer (1928-2017)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Bengt Ekerot
1920–1971
Swedish actor and director (1920–1971)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Bengt with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

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 forms7

Wikidata Q817199CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: BenedictCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Bengt.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates3

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · 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 Bengt

Late Latin origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “blessed, well spoken of”

Contraction of Late Latin Benedictus. First recorded in Sweden as Benkt in 1364. Cognate with Danish Bent and English Bennett.

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: BenedictCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Where Bengt is used

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

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

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

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

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 1973: 6 boys (rank 4505).

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

Popularity over time

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

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Bengt

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 1999: 4; births; Rank #537
Peak year: 1963; 62 births

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

Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

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

Show the data table

Bengt in Norway, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	25	164	observed
1946	22	183	observed
1947	37	132	observed
1948	36	140	observed
1949	43	120	observed
1950	39	130	observed
1951	33	141	observed
1952	40	128	observed
1953	46	115	observed
1954	39	130	observed
1955	53	113	observed
1956	49	117	observed
1957	39	133	observed
1958	50	122	observed
1959	54	114	observed
1960	54	119	observed
1961	58	113	observed
1962	44	136	observed
1963	62	112	observed
1964	55	120	observed
1965	56	121	observed
1966	48	143	observed
1967	57	125	observed
1968	54	133	observed
1969	51	138	observed
1970	48	151	observed
1971	55	141	observed
1972	48	155	observed
1973	53	148	observed
1974	36	183	observed
1975	39	174	observed
1976	45	158	observed
1977	30	203	observed
1978	32	199	observed
1979	21	241	observed
1980	25	222	observed
1981	14	305	observed
1982	16	296	observed
1983	16	298	observed
1984	13	346	observed
1985	15	305	observed
1986	14	325	observed
1987	8	459	observed
1988	13	340	observed
1989	10	397	observed
1990	11	388	observed
1991	9	409	observed
1992	5	524	observed
1993	6	491	observed
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	6	473	observed
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	4	537	observed
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
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	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
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: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

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
Bengt— “blessed”
Bengt, _Swed._ Lat. blessed, 184
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Bengt Holmström
born 1949
Finnish economist and Nobel laureate
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Bengt I. Samuelsson
1934–2024
Swedish biochemist
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Bengt Strömgren
1908–1987
Danish astronomer (1908-1987)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Bengt Gustavsson
1928–2017
Swedish footballer (1928-2017)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Bengt Ekerot
1920–1971
Swedish actor and director (1920–1971)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

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 forms7

Wikidata Q817199CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: BenedictCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikipedia: BengtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Bengt.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates3

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · 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.

A story to pass on.

About Bengt

Late Latin origin

Where Bengt is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Bengt Holmström

Bengt I. Samuelsson

Bengt Strömgren

Bengt Gustavsson

Bengt Ekerot

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 Bengt

Late Latin origin

Where Bengt is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Bengt Holmström

Bengt I. Samuelsson

Bengt Strömgren

Bengt Gustavsson

Bengt Ekerot

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page