Benedykt
From the Latin for "blessed", and it goes only to boys. Around 6,000 Poles carry it, uncommon enough that meeting one tends to stick with you.
Benedykt Pronunciation
Benedykt is pronounced be-NE-dihkt (/bɛˈnɛdɨkt/).
What Benedykt means
Where Benedykt comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Benedykt reaches Polish from the Latin Benedictus, built from bene, meaning well, and dicere, to speak. The literal sense is closer to well spoken of, and from that grew the meaning Polish speakers know: błogosławiony, blessed. The name arrived with the Church and stayed.
Saint Benedict of Nursia, who wrote the monastic rule in the sixth century, gave the name its long institutional life across Europe. Sixteen popes have carried it since. A boy named Benedykt in a Kraków class register sits among the Jakubs and Antonis, his name older than most around it.
The name bends easily. Benek does the daily work, the form a friend uses, and Benedykta serves as its feminine cross-form. Each keeps the root intact.
So the meaning holds. Whatever a Benedykt does with his life, the name still says blessed, still traces back to bene dicere, well spoken.
How many people are named Benedykt
1 in 3497 men in Poland is named Benedykt. 6,104 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #449 among male names.
Benedykt's popularity over time
37 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #409 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2011.
Where Benedykt is most popular
Benedykt is most popular in Lesser Poland, 76% above the national average (37 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+68%) and Lower Silesian (+38%). It is least common in West Pomeranian and Lubusz, 74% and 56% below average respectively.
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Lesser Poland37 boys born+76%
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Masovian55 boys born+68%
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Lower Silesian20 boys born+38%
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Silesian29 boys born+38%
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Warmian-Masurian7 boys born+5%
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Pomeranian14 boys born+3%
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Lublin8 boys born−16%
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Greater Poland16 boys born−20%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian5 boys born−51%
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Subcarpathian5 boys born−55%
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Lubusz2 boys born−56%
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West Pomeranian2 boys born−74%
Benedykt as a middle name
Benedykt is a first name for 6,104 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7,878, a 44/56 split — almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 111th, between Romuald (7,947) and Marcel (7,842).
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109
8,103Nikodem
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110
7,947Romuald
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1117,878Benedykt
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112
7,842Marcel
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113
7,841Joachim
When Benedykt celebrates name day
Benedykt appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 12 February.