Benjamine
Benjamine was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 1,807 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benjamine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Benjamine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,393, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1919, the peak
Benjamine peaked in 1919, when 35 boys were given it, #1,189 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #12,393 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,824 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,875 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,890 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,223 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,566 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,387 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,850 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,972 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,302 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (129)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 14 | #5,813 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,308 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,588 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,773 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,926 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,496 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,601 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,898 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,683 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,565 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,435 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,919 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,371 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,463 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,222 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,868 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,618 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,435 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 26 | #2,216 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,227 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 31 | #1,868 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 27 | #1,981 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,020 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 22 | #2,277 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,348 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,220 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 34 | #1,674 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,019 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,862 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,006 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,545 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 23 | #1,936 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,244 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,335 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,371 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,745 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,222 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,039 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 16 | #1,979 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,139 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,188 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,424 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,310 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 19 | #1,856 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,559 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,888 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,519 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,283 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,171 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,780 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #2,966 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,903 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,894 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,120 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,233 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,682 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,569 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,581 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,085 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,843 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,607 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,344 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,904 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,140 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,495 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,216 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,309 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,846 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,000 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,223 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,107 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,216 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,794 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,007 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,405 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,804 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,085 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 18 | #1,877 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,783 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,634 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,702 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,423 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,189 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,290 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,239 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,162 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,885 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,590 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,179 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,198 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,388 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,249 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 8 | #852 | 0.07 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,330 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,016 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 8 | #793 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,118 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 9 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 10 | #656 | 0.09 |
| 1892 | 9 | #754 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 9 | #645 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 9 | #669 | 0.08 |
| 1889 | 13 | #528 | 0.12 |
| 1888 | 11 | #616 | 0.09 |
| 1887 | 11 | #548 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 12 | #544 | 0.11 |
| 1885 | 7 | #769 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 10 | #619 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 15 | #461 | 0.14 |
| 1882 | 9 | #655 | 0.08 |
| 1881 | 17 | #419 | 0.17 |
| 1880 | 13 | #505 | 0.12 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benjamine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benjamine has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 129 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benjamine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benjamine, and how old are they?
An estimated 983 Americans named Benjamine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 32 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,175 people named Benjamine (29 women and girls, 1,146 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,049 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Benjamine
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 Benjamine and names like it
- Compare Benjamine and BenjamanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBenjamine peaked in 1919.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Benjamine since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Benjamine.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Benjamine alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.