Beni
Beni is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 20 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,955 among girls’ names and #4,876 among boys’, #7,439 among all names counting both); 250 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Beni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Beni mean?
Wiktionary, Hungarian section
Beni is “a diminutive of the male given names Benedek and Benjámin”
Clipping and -i diminutive of Benedek or Benjámin.
[ˈbɛni]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hungarian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Beni?
#4,876 among boys’ names, 2025
Beni rose from #8,111 in 2015 to #4,876 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 11.7 per million.
33 babies in 2025, the peak
Beni peaked in 2025, when 33 babies were given it (20 boys, #4,876 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 10 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,955 | 20 | #4,876 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,365 | 10 | #7,836 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,360 | 10 | #7,801 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,792 | 14 | #6,186 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,751 | 11 | #7,143 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,252 | 14 | #6,010 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 10 | #7,711 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 7 | #9,794 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #12,498 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,618 | 5 | #12,420 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #16,852 | 9 | #8,111 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,863 | 5 | #12,308 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #12,361 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 5 | #12,490 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 5 | #12,502 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 5 | #12,701 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #11,545 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #10,532 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,343 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,264 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,671 | 5 | #4,083 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,168 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,020 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Beni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 250 Americans recorded as Beni, 33% are girls and 67% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Beni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Beni, and how old are they?
An estimated 243 Americans named Beni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 589 people named Beni (174 women and girls, 415 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 121 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Beni rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 112,635 babies since 1880, Beni is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 488 babies (6.8%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Beni
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 Beni and names like it
- Compare Beni and BennieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBeni peaked in 2025.
- Hungarian namesWiktionary’s origin for Beni: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Beni.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Beni alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.