Benoit Forename
2,476th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 415,820 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
France
Benoit Forename Definition:
Latin (masculine) - Blessed.
Benoit Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 100% | 164,024 | 1:405 | 112 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 98,414 | 1:750 | 151 |
| Canada | 100% | 31,246 | 1:1,060 | 240 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 20,184 | 1:1,071 | 215 |
| Benin | 100% | 17,257 | 1:613 | 93 |
| Belgium | 100% | 16,232 | 1:708 | 164 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 12,327 | 1:922 | 214 |
| Burundi | 100% | 9,414 | 1:1,052 | 342 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 8,162 | 1:2,895 | 667 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 5,048 | 1:3,641 | 492 |
| Ivory Coast | 99% | 4,437 | 1:5,201 | 597 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 4,161 | 1:23,446 | 2,992 |
| Haiti | 100% | 3,531 | 1:3,038 | 471 |
| Togo | - | 2,472 | 1:2,928 | 493 |
| Guinea | 100% | 2,099 | 1:5,650 | 530 |
| United States | 100% | 1,733 | 1:209,196 | 7,335 |
| Senegal | 100% | 1,538 | 1:9,481 | 729 |
| Mali | 100% | 1,325 | 1:12,813 | 1,019 |
| Gabon | 100% | 1,123 | 1:1,677 | 400 |
| Chad | 100% | 989 | 1:13,750 | 2,154 |
| Morocco | - | 901 | 1:38,123 | 1,790 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 900 | 1:9,126 | 962 |
| Thailand | 100% | 723 | 1:96,910 | 8,287 |
| England | 100% | 631 | 1:88,119 | 3,471 |
| Poland | 100% | 613 | 1:62,034 | 1,561 |
| Mauritius | - | 518 | 1:2,505 | 452 |
| Congo | 100% | 498 | 1:10,059 | 1,290 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 473 | 1:571 | 135 |
| French Polynesia | - | 395 | 1:704 | 151 |
| Germany | 100% | 355 | 1:272,332 | 3,694 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 327 | 1:31,900 | 2,533 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 291 | 1:105,885 | 10,050 |
| Australia | - | 259 | 1:52,732 | 2,449 |
| Brazil | 100% | 258 | 1:830,373 | 23,102 |
| Egypt | - | 239 | 1:384,523 | 11,247 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 237 | 1:71,317 | 4,240 |
| Ghana | - | 225 | 1:119,939 | 4,817 |
| Somalia | - | 199 | 1:67,969 | 3,157 |
| Luxembourg | - | 143 | 1:3,944 | 476 |
| China | - | 104 | 1:13,135,152 | 59,885 |
| Italy | 99% | 100 | 1:610,621 | 6,148 |
| Lebanon | 97% | 100 | 1:56,276 | 2,479 |
| Chile | 77% | 96 | 1:183,408 | 3,515 |
| Japan | - | 95 | 1:1,347,222 | 16,904 |
| Spain | 100% | 93 | 1:500,322 | 6,364 |
| Portugal | - | 83 | 1:125,432 | 3,169 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 72 | 1:2,470 | 460 |
| South Africa | 100% | 66 | 1:826,252 | 33,610 |
| Sweden | 100% | 60 | 1:164,298 | 6,117 |
| Ireland | 100% | 58 | 1:80,061 | 2,187 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 58 | 1:1,598 | 376 |
| Kuwait | - | 57 | 1:66,408 | 5,422 |
| Angola | - | 49 | 1:550,339 | 1,990 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 49 | 1:3,623,762 | 60,714 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 42 | 1:170,286 | 11,537 |
| Hong Kong | - | 41 | 1:189,091 | 3,221 |
| Singapore | - | 39 | 1:161,207 | 8,112 |
| Mexico | 94% | 37 | 1:3,355,255 | 15,943 |
| New Zealand | - | 31 | 1:146,324 | 5,606 |
| Malaysia | 100% | 29 | 1:1,049,998 | 36,559 |
| Malta | - | 28 | 1:15,334 | 1,292 |
| Austria | 100% | 27 | 1:315,341 | 3,671 |
| Norway | 100% | 26 | 1:197,397 | 4,991 |
| Mozambique | - | 25 | 1:1,089,734 | 1,713 |
| Denmark | - | 24 | 1:235,396 | 4,909 |
| Monaco | 100% | 23 | 1:1,672 | 349 |
| Israel | 84% | 22 | 1:381,951 | 8,592 |
| Scotland | 100% | 21 | 1:254,779 | 4,121 |
| Hungary | 100% | 20 | 1:489,589 | 1,828 |
| India | 100% | 19 | 1:63,940,946 | 1,014,029 |
| Niger | 100% | 14 | 1:1,370,285 | 19,237 |
| Russia | 100% | 13 | 1:11,094,900 | 40,853 |
| Greece | 100% | 12 | 1:911,212 | 9,057 |
| Czechia | 100% | 11 | 1:968,742 | 3,396 |
| Vietnam | - | 11 | 1:8,420,283 | 3,954 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 10 | 1:1,627,333 | 20,911 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 10 | 1:10,975 | 1,397 |
| Wales | 100% | 10 | 1:309,431 | 4,737 |
| Ecuador | - | 9 | 1:1,969,658 | 11,243 |
| Indonesia | - | 9 | 1:28,662,630 | 639,955 |
| Laos | - | 9 | 1:731,873 | 503 |
| Uganda | 100% | 9 | 1:4,550,769 | 42,499 |
| Algeria | - | 8 | 1:4,772,090 | 9,478 |
| Aruba | - | 8 | 1:12,972 | 1,901 |
| Finland | 88% | 8 | 1:685,398 | 7,121 |
| Tunisia | - | 8 | 1:84,613 | 5,494 |
| Zambia | - | 8 | 1:1,981,849 | 20,512 |
| Argentina | 75% | 7 | 1:6,110,463 | 14,292 |
| South Korea | - | 7 | 1:792,060 | 15,859 |
| Qatar | 100% | 5 | 1:473,921 | 38,106 |
| Bahrain | - | 4 | 1:337,168 | 4,986 |
| Bermuda | - | 4 | 1:16,206 | 1,525 |
| Central African Republic | - | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 698 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 4 | 1:1,191,987 | 12,292 |
| Kenya | - | 4 | 1:11,576,778 | 40,588 |
| Libya | - | 4 | 1:1,555,327 | 1,779 |
| Myanmar | - | 4 | 1:12,987,068 | 1,965 |
| Romania | - | 4 | 1:5,012,994 | 31,756 |
| Saint Barthelemy | - | 4 | 1:2,389 | 151 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4 | 1:5,199,772 | 10,550 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 4 | 1:1,368,218 | 2,487 |
| Vanuatu | - | 4 | 1:65,448 | 976 |
| Belarus | 100% | 3 | 1:3,160,795 | 12,102 |
| Colombia | - | 3 | 1:15,926,309 | 51,235 |
| Cyprus | - | 3 | 1:290,359 | 3,456 |
| Moldova | - | 3 | 1:1,187,046 | 5,200 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 3 | 1:64,785,893 | 186,184 |
| Peru | 67% | 3 | 1:10,597,151 | 58,549 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 3 | 1:2,105 | 306 |
| Ukraine | - | 3 | 1:15,166,636 | 17,541 |
| Venezuela | - | 3 | 1:10,067,298 | 111,314 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Bulgaria | - | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Dominica | - | 2 | 1:37,736 | 863 |
| Honduras | - | 2 | 1:4,408,734 | 23,808 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Liberia | 100% | 2 | 1:2,206,030 | 27,695 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Nepal | - | 2 | 1:14,243,676 | 86,069 |
| Nicaragua | - | 2 | 1:3,009,168 | 24,322 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 2 | 1:2,655,032 | 6,915 |
| Turkey | - | 2 | 1:38,900,854 | 64,839 |
| Yemen | - | 2 | 1:13,148,376 | 10,677 |
| Zimbabwe | - | 2 | 1:7,711,908 | 84,647 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 1 | 1:99,395 | 3,544 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Botswana | - | 1 | 1:2,184,449 | 21,741 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Estonia | - | 1 | 1:1,315,380 | 8,883 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Jamaica | - | 1 | 1:2,883,227 | 22,340 |
| Jordan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Namibia | - | 1 | 1:2,404,179 | 16,970 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Palestine | 100% | 1 | 1:4,550,058 | 5,739 |
| Panama | - | 1 | 1:3,906,557 | 40,800 |
| Papua New Guinea | - | 1 | 1:8,152,314 | 202,620 |
| Paraguay | - | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Philippines | - | 1 | 1:106,009,477 | 690,015 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | - | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Sudan | - | 1 | 1:37,806,975 | 10,689 |
| Suriname | - | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 1 | 1:23,769,682 | 193,280 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Tanzania | - | 1 | 1:52,788,319 | 85,066 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 1 | 1:1,361,419 | 34,512 |
| Uruguay | - | 1 | 1:3,427,637 | 13,958 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 1 | 1:13,529 | 157 |
The alternate forms: Benoît (20,298), Bénoit (775), Benoït (61), Benoīt (2), Bênoit (1), Bénoît (91), Bénoït (2), Benôît (1) & Bênoît (1) are calculated separately.
Benoit (111,387) may also be a surname.
Benoit Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Latin (masculine) - Blessed.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
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Sample size: 297 (2014)
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