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Benedict. Because the meaning is awesome. I don't care about any other associations - Arnold, eggs, pope, monks, whatever, that right there is too many for any of them to count. I don't like the Ben-syllable, and I'd never use Benedict because of nn Ben. But I like the sound, the sharp ending of Benedict. Bennett is surnamey to me, in a bad way, but it's not a bad one as surname names go. I dislike Benjamin. It's got that weird y-to-j Hebrew-to-English thing going on, which seems clunky to me, and other than that it's Binyamin, ugh, ugly. And Benji is a little trained doggie from the 70s.

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- mirfak