Benjamin

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Male Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Faroese
Greenlandic
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

From the Hebrew name בִּנְיָמִין (Binyamin)

1) 'Son of the right hand'

2) 'Son of luck'

3) 'Son of the south'

4) 'Son of days', 'son of years'

Related Names

Benjamin	♂
Benjamín	♂
Benjamini	♂
Benyamin	♂
Piiniamiit	♂
Pîniamît	♂

See also Ben, Beniamin, Benja, Benjam, Benjami, Bünyamin

For female forms see Benjamina

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Benjamininpoika
Benjaminsen
Benjaminson
Benjaminssen
Benjaminsson
Benjaminssøn
Benjaminsøn

Female

Benjamindatter
Benjaminintytär
Benjaminsdatter
Benjaminsdotter
Benjaminsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Benjamin
Genitive:	Benjamins

- Faroese
Nominative:	Benjamin
Accusative:	Benjamin
Dative:	Benjamini
Genitive:	Benjamins

- Finnish
Nominative:	Benjamin
Genitive:	Benjaminin
Partitive:	Benjaminia

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Benjamin
Accusative:	Benjamin
Dative:	Benjamin
Genitive:	Benjamins

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Benjamin
Genitive:	Benjamins

- Swedish
Nominative:	Benjamin
Genitive:	Benjamins

Name Days

Denmark

30 August

Faroe Islands

30 August

Finland

20 December

Norway

30 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

20 December

Sweden

28 December

Further Information

• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1607
  • 17th century
• Norway:
  • 17th century
  • 18th century
• Finland:
  • 17th century
• Denmark:
  • 19th century
• Iceland:
  • Officially approved as a given name on 9 March 2023

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark:
  • 1970-
• Sweden:
  • 1865-1919
  • 1960-
  • 1980-1995
  • 2000-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Nordafjells, especially Nordland (18th and 19th century)
• Denmark:
  • Sjælland
• Sweden:
  • Bohuslän (19th century) see map
  • Halland (19th century) see map
  • Dalsland (19th century) see map
  • Västsverige
  • Nordsverige

Bible

• In the bible, Benjamin was named Benoni until his father changed it.

Namesakes

• Benjamin Karl Henrik Höijer (1 June 1767 - 13 June 1812), Swedish philosopher
• Richard Benjamin Christensen (28 September 1879 - 2 April 1959), Danish film director, screenwriter and actor

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 468 people were named Benjamin (percentage of first or only given name: 14 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		10821	16242	8	31	10813	16211
Denmark		11724	n.a.	0	n.a.	11724	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	13295	n.a.	18	n.a.	13277
Greenland		42	198	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		37	50	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		8263	n.a.	4	n.a.	8259	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Benjamin (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.