Given name & surname
Bente
“one who is blessed”
Bente is a variant of Benedicta. In Latin use, Benedicta carries the interpretation “one who is blessed.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bente is a variant of Benedicta. In Latin use, Benedicta carries the interpretation “one who is blessed.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Danish usage, Bente is a feminine form of Bent.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1961. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bente through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1961
- 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 girls is 5 in 1965. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 361 as a first name in 2020; 340 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.
Bente’s family of names
In Danish usage, Bente is a feminine form of Bent. Bente has a related form in Benedicta. In Danish usage, Bente has a conventional equivalent in the Faroese form BEINTA.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bente
- Bente SkariNorwegian cross-country skierborn 1972
- Bente NordbyNorwegian footballerborn 1974
- Bente PaulisDutch rowerborn 1997
- Bente KahanNorwegian musicianborn 1958
- Bente LandheimNorwegian biathleteborn 1990
- Bente BørsumNorwegian actress (born 1934)
- Bente RoggeDutch water polo playerborn 1997
- Bente KvitlandNorwegian footballerborn 1974
- Bente ErichsenNorwegian film directorborn 1949
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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