Given name & surname
Beniamin
Beniamin is a masculine given name. It is used in Romanian and Old English.
Original LatinBeniaminus
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Beniamin comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Beniamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν, from Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Beniamin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 33
- 33 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 9 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 9 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 413 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Beniamin’s family of names
In Polish usage, Beniamin has a diminutive in Beniaminek. In Latin usage, Beniamin has a conventional equivalent in the English form Benjamin. In Polish usage, Beniamin has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Beniamino.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Beniamin has relatives in 24 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Beniamin comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Beniamin
- Benjamin TupiekaMetropolitan of Minsk and Zaslaŭje, Patriarchal Exarch of all Belarus (2020–present)born 1968
- Pope Benjamin II of AlexandriaCoptic Pope
- Venijamin Taušanović1884–1952
- Beniamin1706–1785
- Benjamin FedchenkovBishop of the Russian Orthodox Church (1880–1961)
- Benjaminarchbishop (1887-1963)
- Beniamin1953–2023
- Benjamin LikhomanovRussian bishop (1952-)
- Beniamin1900–1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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