Binyamin
Binyamin was given to 53 boys in 2025, #2,520 among boys’ names; 1,087 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Binyamin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Binyamin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Binyamin?
#2,520 among boys’ names, 2025
Binyamin rose from #2,923 in 2015 to #2,520 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 20.9 to 31.0 per million.
63 babies in 2024, the peak
Binyamin peaked in 2024, when 63 boys were given it, #2,265 among boys’ names. The 53 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #2,520 | 31.0 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,265 | 36.6 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,417 | 32.7 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,833 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 47 | #2,695 | 26.9 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,933 | 23.2 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,058 | 21.7 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,712 | 24.8 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,198 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 51 | #2,481 | 26.9 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,923 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,157 | 18.2 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,190 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,303 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,312 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,540 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,341 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,652 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,652 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,606 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,838 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,032 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #3,987 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,673 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,410 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,408 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,555 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,901 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,688 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,026 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,535 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,476 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,034 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,930 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,821 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,880 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,287 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,475 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,170 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,824 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,858 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,021 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,069 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,886 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Binyamin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Binyamin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Binyamin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Binyamin, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,087 Americans ever recorded as Binyamin. The median Binyamin alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 744 people named Binyamin (0 women and girls, 744 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 782 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 346 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 580 |
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 Binyamin born?
The states with the most babies named Binyamin are New York, New Jersey and Maryland, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey and Maryland are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 18 | #773 | 5.9× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #491 | 6.0× |
| Maryland | 6 | #716 | 0.9× |
Where Binyamin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Binyamin is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1978 it was given 6.0 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 Binyamin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,433 babies since 1880, Binyamin is the second most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 119 babies (45%), 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 Binyamin
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 Binyamin and names like it
- Compare Binyamin and BinyominBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBinyamin peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Binyamin since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Binyamin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Binyamin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.