Benjie
Benjie was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,281 among boys’ names; 953 Americans have been recorded with it since 1935 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benjie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Benjie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Benjie is “a diminutive of the male given name Benjamin.”
Clipping of Benjamin + -ie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Benjie?
#12,281 among boys’ names, 2025
Benjie entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,281 in 2025.
52 babies in 1960, the peak
Benjie peaked in 1960, when 52 babies were given it (46 boys, #1,154 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,281 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,578 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,956 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,678 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,502 | 3.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,852 | 3.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,638 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,549 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,871 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,022 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 15 | #2,804 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 29 | #1,783 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 36 | #1,505 | 22.9 |
| 1975 | 48 | #1,228 | 30.7 |
| 1974 | 32 | #1,549 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 36 | #1,401 | 23.1 |
| 1972 | 25 | #1,772 | 15.4 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,209 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 30 | #1,545 | 16.1 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,427 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 23 | #1,651 | 13.2 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,038 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,890 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 25 | #1,561 | 13.4 |
| 1964 | 28 | #1,490 | 14.1 |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,214 | 20.2 |
| 1962 | 50 | #1,082 | 24.2 |
| 1961 | 48 | #1,137 | 22.6 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,154 | 21.6 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,302 | 16.9 |
| 1958 | 28 | #1,485 | 13.2 |
| 1957 | 19 | #1,837 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,299 | 16.5 |
| 1955 | 23 | #1,613 | 11.2 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,832 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,927 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,083 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,842 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,729 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,815 | 4.5 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,512 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,935 | 9.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,471 | 3.7 |
| 1942 | 7 | #2,954 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,889 | 5.7 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,141 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,208 | 5.4 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,290 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benjie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 953 Americans recorded as Benjie, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Benjie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benjie, and how old are they?
An estimated 744 Americans named Benjie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 51 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 808 people named Benjie (100 women and girls, 708 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 784 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,663 babies since 1880, Benjie is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 155 babies (3.2%), the third 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 Benjie
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 Benjie and names like it
- Compare Benjie and BenjiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBenjie peaked in 1960.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Benjie since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Benjie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Benjie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.