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[beˈnoni] · Spanish
01 / Meaning & origin
Benoni is a masculine given name documented in Spanish and Icelandic.
Separate records with matching spellings: Benóní (Icelandic), Bénoni (Norman)
No etymology is recorded in our sources for this spelling yet. The record exists because the name is documented in use; a meaning will be shown only once a cited source supports it.
02 / Across borders
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2 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
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France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte), 1942: 5 boys (rank 832).
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03 / By the numbers
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1900–2025 Spelling: BENONI
Recorded category boys
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 15 | 314 | rounded |
| 1901 | 15 | 342 | rounded |
| 1902 | 15 | 310 | rounded |
| 1903 | 15 | 317 | rounded |
| 1904 | 10 | 366 | rounded |
| 1905 | 15 | 321 | rounded |
| 1906 | 15 | 323 | rounded |
| 1907 | 10 | 449 | rounded |
| 1908 | 10 | 450 | rounded |
| 1909 | 15 | 322 | rounded |
| 1910 | 15 | 334 | rounded |
| 1911 | 10 | 428 | rounded |
| 1912 | 10 | 464 | rounded |
| 1913 | 15 | 362 | rounded |
| 1914 | 10 | 440 | rounded |
| 1915 | 10 | 379 | rounded |
| 1916 | 5 | 456 | rounded |
| 1917 | 5 | 431 | rounded |
| 1918 | 5 | 464 | rounded |
| 1919 | 10 | 346 | rounded |
| 1920 | 10 | 409 | rounded |
| 1921 | 10 | 416 | rounded |
| 1922 | 15 | 369 | rounded |
| 1923 | 10 | 477 | rounded |
| 1924 | 5 | 620 | rounded |
| 1925 | 5 | 847 | rounded |
| 1926 | 10 | 489 | rounded |
| 1927 | 5 | 602 | rounded |
| 1928 | 10 | 556 | rounded |
| 1929 | 5 | 593 | rounded |
| 1930 | 5 | 613 | rounded |
| 1931 | 10 | 510 | rounded |
| 1932 | 10 | 539 | rounded |
| 1933 | 5 | 687 | rounded |
| 1934 | 5 | 676 | rounded |
| 1935 | 10 | 505 | rounded |
| 1936 | 5 | 701 | rounded |
| 1937 | 5 | 619 | rounded |
| 1938 | 5 | 588 | rounded |
| 1939 | 5 | 878 | rounded |
| 1940 | 5 | 858 | rounded |
| 1941 | 5 | 834 | rounded |
| 1942 | 5 | 832 | rounded |
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| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “BENONI” 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.
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
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.
Benoni— “son of sorrow”
…Naphtali commemorates Leah’s wrestling with her sister; 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…
…Naphtali commemorates Leah’s wrestling with her sister; 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.
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
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.
