Benhamin
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Benhamin has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 1984. 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 1988, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Benhamin, 1988
1 in 528,000
Benhamin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Benhamin?
Benhamin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1988
- 1 in 528,000
- 7 of 3,694,212 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 273,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1988
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 365,806 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Benhamin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 365,806 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benhamin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Benhamins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Benhamin was born before 1987 — so the typical Benhamin is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 18
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Benhamin 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
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- 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 1988 (7)
- Years since peak
- 37
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.0% average annual change
Spellings of Benhamin
Benhamin is not the most common spelling — Benjamin is, with 98.9% against Benhamin's <0.01%.
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.
Benhamin around the world
Where Benhamin 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.
- South Australia1973–1973#454in 1973
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Benhamin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Benhamin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Benhamin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.