Ben (first name)
Ben , short form of Benjamin , and more rarely Benedikt or Bernhard , is a male given name.
Distribution and importance
The first name Ben was hardly common in Germany before the end of the 1980s, but has become more and more popular since then. After the turn of the millennium, he was among the ten most frequently given first names of the respective year several times, from 2011 to 2014 he took the top spot. The name Ben means "son of the lucky one".
to form
- Benas , Lithuanian
Name bearer
- Ben (singer) (* 1981), German pop singer, showmaster and actor
- Ben l'Oncle Soul (* 1984), French retro soul singer and songwriter
- Ben Affleck (born 1972), American actor
- Ben Barnes (born 1981), British actor
- Ben Becker (* 1964), German actor
- Ben Berend (* 1995), American Nordic combined skier
- Ben Bernanke (* 1953), American banker
- Ben Best , American screenwriter and actor
- Ben Birchall (* 1977), British motorcycle racer
- Ben Bostrom (* 1974), American motorcycle racer
- Ben Foster (actor) ( Benjamin A. Foster ; * 1980), American actor
- Ben Foster (soccer player) ( Benjamin Anthony Foster ; * 1983), English soccer player
- Ben Hadad (* 2002), German-speaking voice actor
- Ben Hankinson (born 1969), American ice hockey player
- Ben Heath (* 1992), British poker player
- Ben Johnson (* 1961), Canadian sprinter
- Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English playwright and poet
- Ben Kingsley (born 1943), British actor
- Ben Lamb (* 1985), American poker player
- Ben Moody (* 1981), American guitarist and producer
- Ben Rice (born 1972), British writer
- Ben Roethlisberger (* 1982), American football player
- Ben Smith (* 1988), American ice hockey player
- Ben Spies (* 1984), American motorcycle racer
- Ben Stapp (* 1982), American jazz tuba player
- Ben Stiller (born 1965), American actor
- Ben Sulsky (* 1987), American poker player
- Ben Tollerene (* 1986), American poker player
- Ben Vautier (* 1935), French artist
- Ben Vereen (born 1946), American actor and preacher
- Ben Whishaw (born 1980), British actor
- Ben Wilson (painter) (born 1963), British street painter
- Ben Yu (* 1986), American poker player
- Ben Zolinski (* 1992), German soccer player
- Ben Zucker (* 1983), German singer
Web links
Wiktionary: Ben - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
