Benedetta

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Benedetta

Say it: beh-neh-DET-tah

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Meaning

From Latin benedicta 'blessed'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

388 babies given this name since 1906
At its height in 1906, about 1 in 42,200 girls
8 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

The family of the name

English	Benedicta
Spanish	Benita

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Where this comes from

Calendars of saints and name days
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United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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