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benedict Name Meaning and History

English and Dutch: from the medieval personal name Benedict (Latin Benedictus meaning ‘blessed’). This owed its popularity in the Middle Ages chiefly to St. Benedict of Norcia (c.480–550), who founded the Benedictine order of monks at Monte Cassino and wrote a monastic rule that formed a model for all subsequent rules. No doubt the meaning of the Latin word also contributed to its popularity as a personal name, especially in Romance countries.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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benedict Family Facts

Distribution of benedict Families in the US in 1920
Number of benedict families
 368-733
 123-367		 1-122
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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