Benjamin
Most Poles have never met one, but that's shifting: more boys got it last year than in years past, and the name keeps climbing. Hebrew at root, from a phrase meaning "son of the right hand".
Benjamin Pronunciation
Benjamin is pronounced ben-YAH-meen (/bɛnˈjamin/).
What Benjamin means
Where Benjamin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Benjamin begins in Hebrew, as Binyamin, and the name means son of the right hand. In the book of Genesis it belongs to Jacob's youngest son. His mother Rachel, dying in childbirth, first called him Ben-oni, son of my sorrow. Jacob changed the name to Benjamin, and the right hand it points to was the side of strength and blessing.
The twelve tribes of Israel took their names from Jacob's sons, and one of them was the tribe of Benjamin. So the name sits inside one of the oldest genealogies we can still read.
In Poland it usually keeps its full form and gets no clipped nickname on this list. A boy called Benjamin finds his own name near the top of a class register, printed out to the last letter. The meaning underneath it does not change: son of the right hand, syn prawicy.
How many people are named Benjamin
1 in 7266 men in Poland is named Benjamin. 2,938 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #593 among male names.
Benjamin's popularity over time
69 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #296 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.
Where parents choose Benjamin
Benjamin is most popular in West Pomeranian, 44% above the national average (20 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+34%) and Lubusz (+23%). It is least common in Holy Cross and Warmian-Masurian, 78% and 66% below average respectively.
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West Pomeranian
+44%1 in 4,221 babies
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Masovian
+34%1 in 4,542 babies
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Lubusz
+23%1 in 4,966 babies
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Holy Cross
−78%1 in 27,717 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
−66%1 in 17,948 babies
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Lublin
−41%1 in 10,268 babies
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West Pomeranian+44% 20 born1 in 4,221 babies+44%
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Masovian+34% 78 born1 in 4,542 babies+34%
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Lubusz+23% 10 born1 in 4,966 babies+23%
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Opole+19% 9 born1 in 5,122 babies+19%
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Silesian+18% 44 born1 in 5,172 babies+18%
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Lesser Poland+15% 43 born1 in 5,277 babies+15%
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Lower Silesian+12% 29 born1 in 5,418 babies+12%
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Pomeranian+3% 25 born1 in 5,893 babies+3%
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Łódź+1% 21 born1 in 6,034 babies+1%
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Subcarpathian−19% 16 born1 in 7,535 babies−19%
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Greater Poland−26% 26 born1 in 8,279 babies−26%
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Podlaskie−35% 7 born1 in 9,398 babies−35%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−39% 11 born1 in 9,944 babies−39%
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Lublin−41% 10 born1 in 10,268 babies−41%
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Warmian-Masurian−66% 4 born1 in 17,948 babies−66%
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Holy Cross−78% 2 born1 in 27,717 babies−78%
Benjamin as a middle name
Benjamin is a first name for 2,938 men in Poland and a middle name for another 886, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 239th, between Maximilian (895) and Henry (884).
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#237 Ali902
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#238 Maximilian895
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#239 Benjamin886
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#240 Henry884
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#241 Alejandro878