Bentzion
Bentzion was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,858 among boys’ names; 561 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bentzion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bentzion?
#3,858 among boys’ names, 2025
Bentzion fell from #3,695 in 2015 to #3,858 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 15.1 to 16.4 per million.
47 babies in 2024, the peak
Bentzion peaked in 2024, when 47 boys were given it, #2,756 among boys’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,858 | 16.4 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,756 | 27.3 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,894 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,894 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,377 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,480 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,009 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,756 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,609 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,077 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,695 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,085 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,687 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,014 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,453 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,388 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,439 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,092 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,664 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,876 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,168 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,039 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,300 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,153 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #6,981 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,898 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,816 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,413 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,048 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,053 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,913 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,176 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,232 | 2.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,597 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,816 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,618 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,632 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #4,982 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bentzion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bentzion has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bentzion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bentzion, and how old are they?
An estimated 553 Americans named Bentzion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 395 people named Bentzion (0 women and girls, 395 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 390 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
Where are babies named Bentzion born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 19 | #748 | 7.0× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #714 | 5.9× |
Where Bentzion is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bentzion is most over-represented in New York: since 1980 it was given 7.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bentzion with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bentzion
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.
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