Fun Facts About the Name Benicio
- More than 4 thousand babies named Benicio: U.S. records list 4,665 babies given the name Benicio from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Benicio Mean?
Benicio is a masculine given name meaning "blessed." It belongs to the Spanish and Portuguese naming tradition and is a variant of Benito, the Spanish and Portuguese form of the Latin name Benedictus.
Benedictus is a Latin adjective built from bene, "well," and dictus, "spoken" (from dicere, "to say"). Its literal sense is "well spoken," but in Christian Latin it was used to mean "blessed," the sense it carries in Latin biblical blessings.
The ending -icio sets Benicio apart from the shorter Benito. Both come from the same Latin root, but they are distinct forms rather than one being a translation of the other. The exact origin of the longer ending is not clearly documented; it is best described as a Romance variant of the Benito type.
Benicio Name History & Origins
The name goes back to Benedictus, which spread through Christian Europe in large part because of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the sixth-century founder of the Benedictine order of monks. As the name passed into the Romance languages it took different shapes: Italian Benedetto and Benito, Spanish and Portuguese Benito, and Portuguese Bento.
Benicio is a related form used in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world. It follows the same basic pattern as the other Romance forms, shortening the Latin name and adding a native ending, but it stands apart from the more established Benito.
Outside Spanish-speaking regions the name is familiar chiefly through the Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro. He is a widely recognized bearer of the name, which itself long predates him.
How Popular is the Name Benicio?
Benicio recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2025. Its best rank was #672 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #672 | 405 | 0.0237% |
| 2024 | #751 | 339 | 0.0198% |
| 2023 | #778 | 327 | 0.0191% |
| 2022 | #767 | 329 | 0.0189% |
| 2021 | #796 | 307 | 0.0176% |
| 2020 | #773 | 306 | 0.0177% |
| 2019 | #886 | 247 | 0.0138% |
| 2018 | #887 | 245 | 0.0135% |
| 2017 | #1,066 | 185 | 0.0100% |
| 2016 | #978 | 209 | 0.0110% |
| 2015 | #1,328 | 133 | 0.0069% |
| 2014 | #1,344 | 128 | 0.0067% |
| 2013 | #1,039 | 185 | 0.0098% |
| 2012 | #1,112 | 166 | 0.0088% |
| 2011 | #1,185 | 149 | 0.0078% |
| 2010 | #1,310 | 131 | 0.0068% |
| 2009 | #1,390 | 122 | 0.0062% |
| 2008 | #1,552 | 103 | 0.0050% |
| 2007 | #1,323 | 129 | 0.0062% |
| 2006 | #1,714 | 82 | 0.0040% |
| 2005 | #1,485 | 97 | 0.0049% |
| 2004 | #1,440 | 97 | 0.0049% |
| 2003 | #1,296 | 108 | 0.0055% |
| 2002 | #1,893 | 59 | 0.0030% |
| 2001 | #2,056 | 51 | 0.0026% |
| 2000 | #8,292 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1998 | #7,643 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1990 | #8,233 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1988 | #5,806 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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