Bentura — boys' name

What the Data Says About Bentura

The Social Security Administration has registered 43 babies named Bentura between 1919 and 1978, spanning 60 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bentura currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1978. The name reached its historical peak in 1932, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Bentura is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1928.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bentura performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 16 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Bentura shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Bentura in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bentura in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 43 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.