Benedict
49
Babies in 2024
-63%
10-year change
1999
Peak · 209
-9%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Benedict
Benedict peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (209 babies in 1999) and has remained in active use — 49 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Benedict reached its peak in 1999, when 209 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #165 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 49 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,497 boys have been officially registered with the name Benedict in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 828 boys were registered with the name, starting from 132 in 2014 and ending at 49 in 2024.