Bento
Bento was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,588 among boys’ names; 170 Americans have been recorded with it since 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bento by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bento mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Bento is “a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict” Its etymology gives the sense “blessed” (benedictus).
From Old Galician-Portuguese Bẽeito, from Late Latin Benedictus, from benedictus (“blessed”), from Latin benedicō. Doublet of Benedito and bendito. Compare Spanish Benito, French Benoît, Italian Benedetto.
/ˈbẽ.tu/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bento?
#3,588 among boys’ names, 2025
Bento entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #3,588 in 2025.
31 babies in 2025, the peak
Bento peaked in 2025, when 31 boys were given it, #3,588 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 23 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,588 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,453 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,120 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,462 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,365 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,438 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,005 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,924 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,628 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,767 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bento a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bento has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bento: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bento, and how old are they?
An estimated 169 Americans named Bento and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 6. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 191 people named Bento (7 women and girls, 184 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 43 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Bento 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 14,974 babies since 1880, Bento is the second most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 257 babies (12%), 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 Bento
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 Bento and names like it
- Compare Bento and BenitoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBento peaked in 2025.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bento since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Bento: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Bento.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bento alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.