Given name & surname
Benedek
Benedek is a surname from Hungarian. It is used in English, Hungarian, and Romanian.
Original HungarianBeni
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Benedek through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 385 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Benedek’s family of names
In Hungarian usage, Benedek has a diminutive in BENI. Benedek shares a linguistic root with Benedict. In Hungarian usage, Benedek has a conventional equivalent in the German form Benedikt.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Benedek has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Hungarian roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 31
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Bennettequivalent
- Benedictcognate · English
- Benequivalent
- Benitoequivalent
- Bennetequivalent
- Baruchequivalent
- BentoPortuguese
- Benoitequivalent
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- Benedettoequivalent
- Barakequivalent
- Bennoequivalent
- Barackequivalent
- Benedictoequivalent
- Benzequivalent
- BenediktGerman
- Benoequivalent
- Bengtequivalent
- Bendikequivalent
- Bendichtequivalent
- Benonequivalent
- BeneditoPortuguese
- BenoîtFrench
- Benediktoequivalent
- Binidittuequivalent
- Benedictusequivalent
- Beneadequivalent
- Benedyktequivalent
- Bennedictequivalent
- Bentequivalent
- Bénédictequivalent
- Bendixequivalent
People named Benedek
- Benedek FliegaufHungarian film directorborn 1974
- Benedek JávorHungarian biologist, environmentalist, politicianborn 1972
- Benedek OláhFinnish table tennis playerborn 1991
- Benedek VirágHungarian poet, translator, priest (1754–1830)
- Benedek Szabolcs FeketeHungarian Catholic priestborn 1977
- ChariteoSpanish poet1450–1514
- Venedikt DzhelepovSoviet physicist (1913–1999)
- Venedikt MartSoviet poet (1896-1937)
- Benedek Tomcsányigymnastborn 2001
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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