Benedict is a male first name.
Benedict is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1055 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,054 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Benedict.
You may not know anyone named Benedict, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 31 states are home to men and boys named Benedict. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Benedict living in one state or another. If your name is Benedict and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In New York, which has the most people named Benedict relative to the population, you still have to ask 9,093 men and boys their names before you hear Benedict as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With eight letters, the name Benedict is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Benedict and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Benedict, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Elephant
Nut
Elephant
Dinosaur
Igloo
Cat
Tiger
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Benedict
Benedict
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
E
N
E
D
I
C
T
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
E
N
E
D
I
C
T
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Benedict sounds like this:
