Benjamen
Benjamen was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,827 among boys’ names; 3,687 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,070 Americans named Benjamen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 25 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benjamen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Benjamen?
#9,827 among boys’ names, 2025
Benjamen fell from #6,368 in 2015 to #9,827 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 4.1 per million.
99 babies in 1990, the peak
Benjamen peaked in 1990, when 99 boys were given it, #1,061 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,827 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,120 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,938 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,592 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,364 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,156 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,450 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,069 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,123 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,002 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,368 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,712 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,587 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,719 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 46 | #2,629 | 24.2 |
| 2010 | 39 | #2,963 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,664 | 23.2 |
| 2008 | 50 | #2,519 | 24.5 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,816 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,406 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 70 | #1,836 | 35.0 |
| 2004 | 52 | #2,208 | 26.2 |
| 2003 | 65 | #1,814 | 32.9 |
| 2002 | 57 | #1,943 | 29.4 |
| 2001 | 67 | #1,710 | 34.5 |
| 2000 | 65 | #1,722 | 33.1 |
| 1999 | 60 | #1,721 | 31.2 |
| 1998 | 72 | #1,514 | 37.7 |
| 1997 | 71 | #1,484 | 37.7 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,335 | 42.8 |
| 1995 | 61 | #1,546 | 32.0 |
| 1994 | 70 | #1,396 | 36.2 |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,291 | 39.3 |
| 1992 | 64 | #1,428 | 32.0 |
| 1991 | 60 | #1,461 | 29.7 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,061 | 48.2 |
| 1989 | 88 | #1,129 | 44.0 |
| 1988 | 78 | #1,129 | 40.7 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,122 | 39.1 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,101 | 39.1 |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,066 | 40.6 |
| 1984 | 84 | #967 | 46.5 |
| 1983 | 74 | #1,029 | 41.3 |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,013 | 44.1 |
| 1981 | 85 | #976 | 47.5 |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,104 | 37.6 |
| 1979 | 71 | #1,045 | 41.2 |
| 1978 | 88 | #920 | 53.6 |
| 1977 | 88 | #905 | 53.6 |
| 1976 | 85 | #898 | 54.2 |
| 1975 | 58 | #1,100 | 37.1 |
| 1974 | 60 | #1,067 | 38.2 |
| 1973 | 43 | #1,255 | 27.6 |
| 1972 | 26 | #1,730 | 16.0 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,824 | 13.6 |
| 1970 | 24 | #1,799 | 12.9 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,053 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 24 | #1,613 | 13.8 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,037 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,339 | 6.7 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,635 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,552 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,842 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,381 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,072 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,914 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,117 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,055 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,194 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,096 | 7.1 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,847 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 21 | #1,669 | 10.3 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,840 | 9.1 |
| 1952 | 22 | #1,620 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,841 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,119 | 7.3 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,814 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,822 | 9.7 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,375 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,547 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,934 | 9.7 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,816 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,572 | 6.3 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,674 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,807 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,301 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,207 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,568 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,877 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,258 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,134 | 11.6 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,558 | 9.1 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,107 | 12.5 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,310 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,590 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,169 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,696 | 18.6 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,580 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,449 | 10.8 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,360 | 11.5 |
| 1923 | 9 | #2,961 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,151 | 13.8 |
| 1921 | 17 | #1,987 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,346 | 12.2 |
| 1919 | 16 | #1,979 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,081 | 14.8 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,293 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,055 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,793 | 18.9 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,950 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,105 | 15.6 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,208 | 40.9 |
| 1894 | 6 | #965 | 51.8 |
| 1889 | 5 | #982 | 45.2 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,048 | 41.4 |
| 1887 | 5 | #942 | 49.3 |
| 1884 | 9 | #667 | 78.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benjamen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benjamen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benjamen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benjamen, and how old are they?
3,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 3,687 Americans ever recorded as Benjamen. The median Benjamen alive today is 36 years old; half are between 25 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 2,116 people named Benjamen (0 women and girls, 2,116 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,118 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 34 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 187 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 641 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 865 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 184 |
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 Benjamen born?
The states with the most babies named Benjamen are California, Ohio and Texas, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 149 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 85 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 79 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 56 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 51 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 26 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Benjamen 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 840,356 babies since 1880, Benjamen is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 9,795 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Benjamen
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 Benjamen and names like it
- Compare Benjamen and BenjaminBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBenjamen peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Benjamen since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Benjamen.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Benjamen alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.