Boys' name · since 2016
Benning
21 babies named Benning in U.S. Social Security records since 2016, with the highest year being 2016. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #28,517 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 21
- born since 2016
- 2010s
- peak decade
Benning sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 21 recorded since 2016.
Benning has 21 recorded births among boys since 2016, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2016 to 2019.
- #28,517 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 21 born since 2016
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Benning ranks #28,517 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 21 born since 2016, peaking in the 2010s.
- #28,517 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 21
- born since 2016
- 2010s
- peak decade
Benning's 21 recorded births place it above 36.43% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Benning's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Benning's full recorded timeline at 2017, 67% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 33% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2016, with just 7 recorded births.
Benning popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–2019
- Peak year (2016)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 4 years of records
Benning by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (21 births, 100% of the file).
2010s was Benning's strongest decade.
21 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Benning births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 21 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Benning: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2016–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Benning draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.