Benard
Benard was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 1,644 Americans have been recorded with it between 1890 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benard by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Benard?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,042, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1956, the peak
Benard peaked in 1956, when 38 boys were given it, #1,234 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #11,042 | 3.4 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,941 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,488 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,981 | 3.5 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,255 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,035 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,772 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,514 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,738 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,814 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 11 | #5,500 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,410 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,551 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,531 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,864 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,723 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,266 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #5,992 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,684 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,030 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,177 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #3,985 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,384 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,734 | 4.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,637 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,432 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,584 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,444 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,876 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,866 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,986 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #3,978 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,340 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,242 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 11 | #2,998 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 25 | #1,786 | 14.1 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,128 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,732 | 12.9 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,325 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 24 | #1,575 | 13.8 |
| 1966 | 21 | #1,683 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 27 | #1,486 | 14.5 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,732 | 10.5 |
| 1963 | 17 | #1,964 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 23 | #1,670 | 11.1 |
| 1961 | 21 | #1,780 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 20 | #1,817 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 24 | #1,622 | 11.2 |
| 1958 | 22 | #1,682 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,719 | 10.2 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,234 | 18.0 |
| 1955 | 24 | #1,572 | 11.7 |
| 1954 | 28 | #1,436 | 13.7 |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,230 | 18.8 |
| 1952 | 21 | #1,668 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 15 | #1,981 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,313 | 16.8 |
| 1949 | 20 | #1,670 | 11.3 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,614 | 12.0 |
| 1947 | 23 | #1,558 | 12.6 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,890 | 9.2 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,410 | 16.3 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,815 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,280 | 20.3 |
| 1942 | 16 | #1,805 | 11.6 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,450 | 17.9 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,806 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,583 | 16.3 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,368 | 21.6 |
| 1937 | 13 | #1,999 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,359 | 23.1 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,496 | 20.2 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,558 | 19.4 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,544 | 20.2 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,513 | 21.1 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,336 | 26.0 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,304 | 27.3 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,737 | 17.7 |
| 1928 | 17 | #1,908 | 15.3 |
| 1927 | 34 | #1,250 | 30.2 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,794 | 17.1 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,363 | 26.0 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,419 | 24.7 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,359 | 26.5 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,284 | 29.4 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,651 | 20.0 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,597 | 21.6 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,634 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,656 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,366 | 28.1 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,339 | 29.2 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,463 | 25.9 |
| 1914 | 11 | #1,982 | 16.8 |
| 1913 | 9 | #1,960 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,066 | 16.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,608 | 25.7 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,207 | 40.9 |
| 1906 | 9 | #859 | 67.6 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,078 | 44.3 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,017 | 45.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benard a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benard has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benard: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benard, and how old are they?
An estimated 765 Americans named Benard and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 44 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,207 people named Benard (5 women and girls, 1,202 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 873 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Benard born?
The states with the most babies named Benard are Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 146 | not ranked | 5.3× |
| Texas | 37 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 18 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 15 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Benard is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Benard is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 5.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Benard with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Benard
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Benard and names like it
- Compare Benard and StanfordBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBenard peaked in 1956.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Benard since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Benard.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Benard alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.