Benjamyn
Benjamyn was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,828 among boys’ names; 398 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benjamyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Benjamyn?
#9,828 among boys’ names, 2025
Benjamyn fell from #6,713 in 2015 to #9,828 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 4.1 per million.
19 babies in 2007, the peak
Benjamyn peaked in 2007, when 19 boys were given it, #4,824 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,828 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,577 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,265 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,874 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,257 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,479 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,978 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,343 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,089 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,585 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,713 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,612 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,816 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,270 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,288 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,763 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,940 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,387 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,824 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,134 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,368 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,171 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,919 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,582 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,421 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,602 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,214 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,354 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,892 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,037 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,884 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,507 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,877 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,014 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,388 | 2.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,600 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benjamyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benjamyn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benjamyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benjamyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 392 Americans named Benjamyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 296 people named Benjamyn (1 woman or girl, 295 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 335 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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).
How common is the spelling Benjamyn?
Benjamyn is a less common spelling of Benjamin: SSA has recorded 398 Benjamyn and 829,312 Benjamin since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 840,356 babies since 1880, Benjamyn is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 9,795 babies (<1%), the fourth 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 Benjamyn
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 Benjamyn and names like it
- Compare Benjamyn and BenjaminBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBenjamyn peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Benjamyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Benjamyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.