Benoit
Benoit was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,496 among boys’ names; 386 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benoit by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Benoit mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Benoit is “a male given name from French, equivalent to English Benedict.”
Borrowed from French Benoît.
/bɛnˈwɑː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Benoit?
#6,496 among boys’ names, 2025
Benoit rose from #9,687 in 2015 to #6,496 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 7.6 per million.
14 babies in 1922, the peak
Benoit peaked in 1922, when 14 boys were given it, #2,253 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,496 | 7.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,939 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,935 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,687 | 3.7 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,895 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,495 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,704 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,570 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,370 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,038 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 10 | #6,774 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,547 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,505 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,815 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,231 | 2.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,802 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,511 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #5,998 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,736 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,631 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,698 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,346 | 2.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,851 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,093 | 4.5 |
| 1969 | 6 | #3,983 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,070 | 3.9 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,080 | 2.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,722 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,891 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,588 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,608 | 3.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,209 | 5.4 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,545 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,716 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,112 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,117 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,046 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,610 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,742 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,256 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,415 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,775 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,404 | 4.4 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,295 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,253 | 12.9 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,000 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,615 | 10.3 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,779 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,398 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 8 | #2,977 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,560 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,115 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,951 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,861 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,581 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benoit a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benoit has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benoit: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benoit, and how old are they?
An estimated 195 Americans named Benoit and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 14 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,198 people named Benoit (10 women and girls, 1,188 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 185 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.5 times 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,964 babies since 1880, Benoit is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 134 babies (9.7%), again the second most given.
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 Benoit
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 Benoit and names like it
- Compare Benoit and BennetBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBenoit peaked in 1922.
- Maine’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Benoit since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Benoit: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Benoit.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Benoit alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.