Benjimen
Benjimen was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 286 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benjimen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Benjimen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,386, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2009, the peak
Benjimen peaked in 2009, when 11 boys were given it, #7,271 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #12,386 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,394 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,686 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,225 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,149 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,449 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,271 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,388 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,254 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,817 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 7 | #9,227 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,091 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,546 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,286 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,064 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,227 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,046 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,720 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,352 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,030 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,503 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,164 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,415 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,695 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,538 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,140 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,878 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,188 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,041 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,453 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,286 | 3.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,089 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,223 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,548 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,719 | 2.8 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,569 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,177 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,690 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,313 | 6.4 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,742 | 5.4 |
| 1923 | 9 | #2,962 | 8.2 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,898 | 9.2 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,039 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benjimen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benjimen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benjimen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benjimen, and how old are they?
An estimated 219 Americans named Benjimen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 18 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 263 people named Benjimen (0 women and girls, 263 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 228 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 840,356 babies since 1880, Benjimen is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 9,795 babies recorded by SSA was a Benjimen (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.
More about Benjimen and names like it
- Compare Benjimen and BenjaminBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBenjimen peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Benjimen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Benjimen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.