Benjaman
Benjaman was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 2,024 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benjaman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Benjaman?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,253, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1977, the peak
Benjaman peaked in 1977, when 44 boys were given it, #1,371 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #12,253 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,362 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,944 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,911 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,702 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,971 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,006 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,815 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,691 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,211 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (128)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 9 | #7,295 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,126 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,911 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,600 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,358 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,897 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,684 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,025 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,710 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,904 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,831 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,757 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,111 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #2,957 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,617 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,516 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,934 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 23 | #2,367 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,084 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 23 | #2,238 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 30 | #1,824 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,932 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,274 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,857 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,588 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 26 | #1,922 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 44 | #1,371 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 29 | #1,747 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 38 | #1,433 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,282 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,473 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,547 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,689 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,910 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,882 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,009 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,009 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,875 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,678 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,380 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,215 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,840 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,660 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,193 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,952 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,730 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,962 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 22 | #1,634 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #1,809 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,840 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,034 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,232 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,452 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #1,996 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 14 | #1,955 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,258 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,482 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,917 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,727 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,216 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,338 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,468 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,399 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,000 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,196 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,845 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,133 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,915 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,775 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,399 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,240 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,766 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,563 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,110 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 37 | #1,190 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,278 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,223 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,513 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,183 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 33 | #1,234 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,174 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,179 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,777 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,508 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,191 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,278 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,045 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,609 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,289 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 9 | #954 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,107 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 8 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,146 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,020 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,057 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 7 | #864 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 12 | #639 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 7 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 7 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 10 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 6 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 12 | #602 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 5 | #985 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 11 | #606 | 0.10 |
| 1889 | 12 | #553 | 0.11 |
| 1888 | 23 | #388 | 0.19 |
| 1887 | 13 | #492 | 0.13 |
| 1885 | 15 | #482 | 0.14 |
| 1884 | 7 | #775 | 0.06 |
| 1883 | 11 | #559 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 12 | #542 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 10 | #566 | 0.10 |
| 1880 | 12 | #533 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benjaman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benjaman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 128 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benjaman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benjaman, and how old are they?
An estimated 938 Americans named Benjaman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 35 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 703 people named Benjaman (3 women and girls, 700 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,019 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 840,356 babies since 1880, Benjaman is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 9,795 babies recorded by SSA was a Benjaman (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Benjaman
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 Benjaman and names like it
- Compare Benjaman and BenjaminBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBenjaman peaked in 1977.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Benjaman since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Benjaman.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Benjaman alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.