Benedict Family History
- Benedict Name Meaning
- 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,009,253 Historical Documents with Benedict on Ancestry
- 184,960 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 111,312 Census and Voter Lists
- 29,387 Military Records
- 12,857 Immigration Records
- 670,737 Member Trees
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Number of Benedict families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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