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Hebrew roots
[ˈbɛɲːaːmin] · Hungarian
01 / Meaning & origin
Benjámin is a masculine given name documented in Danish and Hungarian. English Wiktionary traces it to Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין.
Separate records with matching spellings: Benjamin (Cebuano, Danish), Benjamin (Cebuano, Danish), Benjamín (Czech, Danish), Benjamîn (Norman)
From Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (Binyamín).
02 / Across borders
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
2000–2025 Spelling: Benjámin
Recorded category boys
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Source: Hungarian Central Statistical Office · Hungary — KSH published top 50 newborn first names, 2000 and 2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 238 | 45 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Benjámin” 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.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
BENJAMIN— “son of the right hand”
…Gad is one of the _troop_ round Leah, “and a _troop_ shall overcome him,” saith Jacob; Asher, is _blessed_, and Moses cries, “let Asher be blessed;” Issachar, is _hire_; and Zebulon, a _dwelling_, because Leah hoped her husband would dwell with her, and his promise from his father is that he shall _dwell_. Rachel cannot name her long-desired first-born without a craving that God would add to her another son, and thus Joseph means an _addition_, and when that second child was…
…Gad is one of the _troop_ round Leah, “and a _troop_ shall overcome him,” saith Jacob; Asher, is _blessed_, and Moses cries, “let Asher be blessed;” Issachar, is _hire_; and Zebulon, a _dwelling_, because Leah hoped her husband would dwell with her, and his promise from his father is that he shall _dwell_. Rachel cannot name her long-desired first-born without a craving that God would add to her another son, and thus Joseph means an _addition_, and when that second child was given, and she felt that it was at the cost of her own life, she mourned over him as Benoni, son of my sorrow; but his father with more hopeful augury called him (probably at his circumcision) Benjamin, son of my right hand.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter I (Hebrew Nomenclature) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Hungary — KSH published top 50 newborn first names, 2000 and 2025
Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), from Ministry of Interior register data · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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