Benen
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Benen has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 2001. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Benen, 2020
1 in 418,000
Benen over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Benen?
Benen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 216,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,591 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Benen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,591 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Benens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Benen was born before 2006 — so the typical Benen is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 57.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 85
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 57.6% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Benen rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2005 (11)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.9% average annual change
Spellings of Benen
Benen is not the most common spelling — Gene is, with 26.3% against Benen's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Benen around the world
Where Benen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada2005–2005#2,048in 2005
- South Australia1984–1999#539in 1999
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Benen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Benen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Benen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.