Baby name
FADING
🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇨🇭 Benoît
/beh · NWAH/
Meaning
“Blessed”
French form of Benedict, from Latin Benedictus meaning blessed; the cedilla and circumflex make it unmistakably French, and Saint Benoît (Benedict of Nursia) is one of the founding figures of Western monasticism.
Nicknames
ben
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Distinctly French and ages beautifully; the spelling alone marks it as serious and cultured.
The cultural moment.
Consistently in the French top 100 throughout the late 20th century; steady rather than declining.