Benzion
Benzion was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,671 among boys’ names; 1,084 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Benzion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 10 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benzion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Benzion mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Benzion is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “son of Zion” (literally).
From Hebrew בֶּנְצִיּוֹן (Bentsiyón), a compound of בֶּן (ben) + צִיּוֹן (Tsiyón), literally “son of Zion”.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Benzion?
#3,671 among boys’ names, 2025
Benzion fell from #3,375 in 2015 to #3,671 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 17.2 to 17.6 per million.
38 babies in 2024, the peak
Benzion peaked in 2024, when 38 boys were given it, #3,169 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,671 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,169 | 22.1 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,467 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,100 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,747 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,734 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,264 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,714 | 16.0 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,387 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,889 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #3,375 | 17.2 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,542 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,411 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,879 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,522 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,727 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,173 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,153 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,681 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,960 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,484 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,432 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,124 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,918 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,849 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,774 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,359 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,428 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,892 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,567 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,711 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,312 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,464 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,340 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #2,993 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,475 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,031 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,178 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,337 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,788 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,119 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,299 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,417 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,847 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,553 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,637 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,377 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,384 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,468 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,743 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,089 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,146 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,728 | 8.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,978 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,789 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,712 | 3.5 |
| 1966 | 5 | #3,991 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,667 | 2.9 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,292 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,031 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,933 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benzion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benzion has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benzion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benzion, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,084 Americans ever recorded as Benzion. The median Benzion alive today is 22 years old; half are between 10 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 817 people named Benzion (0 women and girls, 817 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 114 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 248 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 376 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Benzion born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 852 | not ranked | 12.0× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Benzion is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Benzion is most over-represented in New York: since 1955 it was given 12.0 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 Benzion 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 Benzion
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 Benzion and names like it
- Compare Benzion and SaleemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBenzion peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Benzion since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Benzion: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Benzion.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Benzion alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.