What is the meaning of the name Benjamin?

The meaning of the name Benjamin is "son of the right hand; son of the south; son of my old age". The origin of the name is "Hebrew". The name Benjamin is mostly used as a boys name.

Right pronunciation of Benjamin

\b(e)-nja-min, ben-jamin\

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Benjamin is a really popular first name for boys (#66) and also really popular as a last name (#840). Users of our site ranked the name with a 0.0 (0 vote(s)). Like or dislike the name by ranking this boys name above or write a comment on the name Benjamin.

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The year 1989 was for Benjamin a very good year. In that year there were 15728 births with the name Benjamin. Find out if Benjamin is in the top 100 boys names 1989 or check all top 100 names for any State in any year!

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