Benno - Origin and Meaning of the name

[ 2 syll. ben-no, be-nno ] The boy name Benno is pronounced as BEHNow ^KEY. Benno is mainly used in German, and its language of origin is Latin and Germanic.

Benno is a variant form of the English and French name Bernard in the German language.

Benno is also a pet form of the English name Benedict in the German language.

Benno is not widely used as a baby name for boys. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2007, within the group of boy names directly related to Benno, the English and French Bernard was the most commonly used.

Baby names that sound like Benno include the English Bennie, the English Benny, the Portuguese Buno, the Slavic Bane, the Dutch and English Ben, the English Benejamen, the Hebrew Binyamin, the Turkish Bünyamin, the Romanian Beniamin, and the Italian Beniamino.

^KEY: English pronunciation for Benno: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)"

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