Benn
Benn was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 382 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 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 Benn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Benn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,941, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1980, the peak
Benn peaked in 1980, when 11 boys were given it, #3,636 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #10,941 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,944 | 3.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,893 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,503 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,913 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,258 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,093 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,062 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,854 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,412 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 8 | #6,553 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,895 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,274 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,508 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #5,993 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,409 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,280 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,801 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #3,986 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,154 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,193 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,018 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,696 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,625 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,636 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,101 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,187 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,190 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,677 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,365 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,875 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,651 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,433 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,274 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,128 | 4.6 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,096 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,084 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,368 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #3,999 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,596 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,566 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,782 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #2,967 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,161 | 3.5 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,730 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,720 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,397 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,202 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,016 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,728 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,715 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,197 | 7.3 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,397 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,589 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,208 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,434 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benn, and how old are they?
An estimated 293 Americans named Benn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 33 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 491 people named Benn (1 woman or girl, 490 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 307 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Benn rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 86,283 babies since 1880, Benn is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 292 babies recorded by SSA was a Benn (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 Benn and names like it
- Compare Benn and BenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBenn peaked in 1980.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Benn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Benn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.