Benicio
Benicio was given to 405 boys in 2025, #672 among boys’ names; 4,665 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,620 Americans named Benicio and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benicio by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Benicio mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Benicio is “a male given name from Spanish.”
Borrowed from Spanish Benicio.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Benicio?
#672 among boys’ names, 2025
Benicio rose from #1,328 in 2015 to #672 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.24 per 1,000.
405 babies in 2025, the peak
Benicio peaked in 2025, when 405 boys were given it, #672 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 339 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 405 | #672 | 0.24 |
| 2024 | 339 | #754 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 327 | #778 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 329 | #768 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 307 | #798 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 306 | #773 | 0.18 |
| 2019 | 247 | #886 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 245 | #888 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 185 | #1,066 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 209 | #978 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 133 | #1,328 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 128 | #1,344 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 185 | #1,039 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 166 | #1,112 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 149 | #1,185 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 131 | #1,310 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 122 | #1,390 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 103 | #1,553 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 129 | #1,323 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 82 | #1,714 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,484 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,439 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 108 | #1,295 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 59 | #1,889 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,052 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,635 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,228 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,800 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benicio a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benicio has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benicio: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benicio, and how old are they?
4,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,665 Americans ever recorded as Benicio. The median Benicio alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,618 people named Benicio (15 women and girls, 2,603 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,706 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,320 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Benicio born?
The states with the most babies named Benicio are California, Texas and Florida, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 110 | #330 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 51 | #602 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 35 | #508 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 28 | #377 | 1.6× |
| Massachusetts | 24 | #246 | 1.7× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #490 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 13 | #531 | 1.7× |
| Washington | 13 | #534 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 11 | #503 | 0.9× |
| Nevada | 8 | #366 | 0.6× |
Where Benicio is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Benicio is most over-represented in California: since 1988 it was given 2.1 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 Benicio with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,028 babies since 1880, Benicio is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 405 of their 405 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Benicio
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 Benicio and names like it
- Compare Benicio and BenancioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBenicio peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Benicio since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Benicio: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Benicio.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Benicio alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.