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 Benjamin is most popular
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 Świętokrzyskie and Warmian-Masurian, 78% and 66% below average respectively.
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West Pomeranian20 boys born+44%
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Masovian78 boys born+34%
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Lubusz10 boys born+23%
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Opole9 boys born+19%
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Silesian44 boys born+18%
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Lesser Poland43 boys born+15%
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Lower Silesian29 boys born+12%
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Pomeranian25 boys born+3%
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Łódź21 boys born+1%
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Subcarpathian16 boys born−19%
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Greater Poland26 boys born−26%
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Podlaskie7 boys born−35%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian11 boys born−39%
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Lublin10 boys born−41%
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Warmian-Masurian4 boys born−66%
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Świętokrzyskie2 boys born−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
902Ali
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238
895Maximilian
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239886Benjamin
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240
884Henry
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241
878Alejandro