Benjamin (first name)
Benjamin is a male given name , which also occurs as a family name .
variants
- Ben
- Am
- Benjy
- Benji
- Benny
- Beni
- Benj
- Benni
- Bennie
- Bennian
- Binjamin , Binyamin (Hebrew)
- Beniamino (Italian)
- Benjaminas , Benas (Lithuanian)
- Bengiamin (Rhaeto-Romanic)
- Beniamin (Romanian, Polish)
- Veniamin, Wenjamin (Russian)
- Benjamín (Spanish)
- Bünyamin (Turkish)
etymology
The name is first mentioned in letters under King Sin-Kašid of Uruk (1801–1771 BC), who called himself “King of Amnanum” and the Amurian tribal association of the “Binu-Jamina” (single name “Binjamin”; Akkadian "Mar-Jamin") belonged. The name means "Sons / Son of the South" and is linguistically related to the Old Testament name "Benjamin" as a forerunner . There he describes the youngest of the 12 sons of Jacob, who are considered to be the progenitors of the twelve tribes of Israel : Benjamin (Bible) .
The Hebrew name "Ben-Jamin" is a combination of the elements בן ben ("son") and ימין jamin ("south", "right hand"). The last element initially refers to the direction of the compass (stem designation), or the right, honorable side of the namesake (personal name). Benjamin is a foreign name that literally means “son of the south” or “son of the right hand”, somewhat more freely “the one belonging to the south”, “the one on the right side” or “the particularly honored”. At the beginning of the development there was probably a plural form בני ימין "the southern people". Translations as “son of happiness” or “son of consolation” are not considered appropriate in research.
A meaning derived from the Bible is "the youngest" since Benjamin was the last of Jacob's twelve sons. In some groups or families, when they are introduced, the youngest member is often referred to as our Benjamin , even if the named person has a different name.
distribution
At the beginning of the 1970s, the name Benjamin quickly gained popularity in Germany after it was hardly used before. He was among the top ten most given boy names a couple of times in the 1980s. Since then, its popularity has declined somewhat. Except in the German-speaking area, the first name occurs particularly in the English, French and Dutch-speaking areas.
Name bearer
First name
Benjamin
- Benjamin I , Patriarch of Alexandria (around 590–665)
- Benjamin (fl. Around 1470), a book printer, cf. Obadja, Manasseh and Benjamin of Rome
- Benjamin Alard (* 1985), French harpsichordist and organist
- Benjamin Baier (* 1988), German soccer player
- Benjamin Baier (pool player) (* 1986), German pool player
- Benjamin Balleret (* 1983), Monaco tennis player
- Benjamin Bara (* 1989), German actor
- Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), British composer
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman
- Benjamin Eberle (* 1963), Liechtenstein cross-country skier
- Benjamin Flores, Jr. (* 2002), American actor and rapper
- Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), North American publisher, civil servant (in the service of the British crown), politician, writer, scientist, inventor, natural philosopher and Freemason
- Benjamin Freudenthaler (* 1989), Austrian soccer player
- Benjamin Friedman (1905–1982) American football player and coach
- Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp (1612–1652), Dutch painter
- Benjamin Glazer (1887–1956), American screenwriter, director and film producer
- Benjamin Griffey (* 1982), German rapper, see Casper (rapper)
- Benjamin Kuch (* 1988), German actor and singer
- Benjamin Lamb (* 1985), American poker player, see Ben Lamb
- Benjamin P. Lange (* 1978), German media psychologist
- Benjamin Lauth (* 1981), German soccer player
- Benjamin Lay (1682–1759), English philanthropist, writer and Quaker
- Benjamin Lebert (* 1982), German youth author
- Benjamin Mendy (* 1994), French football player
- Benjamin Netanyahu (* 1949), Israeli politician
- Benjamin of Persia (approx. 400–424)
- Benjamin Pollak (born 1983), French poker player
- Benjamin Pranter (* 1989), Austrian soccer player
- Benjamin Pratnemer (* 1979), Slovenian darts player
- Benjamin Rolle (* 1989), German poker player
- Benjamin Schaefer (* 1981), German jazz pianist
- Benjamin Schmolck (1672–1737), German hymn poet
- Benjamin Spindler (* 1985), German poker player
- Benjamin Strasser (* 1987), German politician and member of the Bundestag ( FDP )
- Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre (* 1975), German youth author and journalist
- Benjamin Trautvetter (* 1985), German handball player
- Benjamin of Tudela († 1173), Benjamin ben Jona (Spain), traveler, "forerunner of Marco Polo"
- Benjamin Yusupov (* 1962), Israeli conductor and composer
- Benjamin Zamani (* 1986), American poker player
Benjamin
- Benjamin de Arriba y Castro (1886–1973), Archbishop of Tarragona
- Benjamin Carrión (1898–1979), Ecuadorian writer, politician, diplomat and university lecturer
- Benjamín Castillo Plascencia (* 1945), Bishop of Celaya
- Benjamín Enzema (* 1989), equatorial Guinean athlete
- Benjamín Fal , former Mexican soccer player and soccer coach
- Benjamín Galindo (* 1960), former Mexican soccer player and current soccer coach
- Benjamín González (1958–2011), Spanish athlete
- Benjamín Irazábal , Uruguayan politician and civil engineer
- Benjamin Jiménez Hernández (* 1938), former bishop of Culiacán
- Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa (1893–1959), Nicaraguan President
- Benjamín Martínez (* 1987), Spanish football player
- Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores (1933-2004), Bolivian painter and assassin
- Benjamín Noval (* 1979), former Spanish cyclist
- Benjamin Núñez Vargas (1915–1994), Costa Rican priest, politician and diplomat
- Benjamín Paredes (* 1962), former Mexican athlete
- Benjamín Rausseo (* 1961), Venezuelan entertainer and entrepreneur
- Benjamín Rojas (* 1985), Argentine actor and singer
- Benjamin Saúl (1924–1980), Spanish-Salvadoran artist and sculptor
- Benjamín Zeledón (1879–1912), Nicaraguan lawyer, politician and military
stage name
- Benjamin (* 1974), Chinese comic artist
Fictional character
- Benjamin Blümchen , cartoon and radio play character
Name day in the Christian tradition
Binyamin Zeʾev
Because of the meeting of the words Benjamin and Zeʾev in Genesis ( Gen 49.27 EU ), which can be interpreted as Benjamin is a wolf , the double name Benjamin Zeʾev is often chosen.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b Cf. Dietz-Otto Edzard : The nomads in the old Babylonian time In: Elena Cassin , Jean Bottéro , Jean Vercoutter : The Old Orientals I - From the Paleolithic to the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. Chr. - , Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1965 (eponymous limited special edition 2003), p. 170.
- ↑ Mowinckel, S .: "Rahelstämme" and "Leastämme" . In: Hempel, J. / Rost, L. (Ed.): From Ugarit to Qumran, FS O. Eißfeldt; BZAW . tape 77 . de Gruyter, Berlin 1958, p. 129 .
- ↑ Benjamin. Retrieved April 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"
- ↑ Benjamin on behindthename.com (Engl.)
- ↑ http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/JewishHebrewYiddish.html