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Beniamin

Boys' name

English equivalent of Benjamin

Beniamin has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 2006, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Beniamin, 2006

1 in 440,000

Beniamin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Beniamin: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Benjamin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Beniamin means

Beniamin is a English equivalent of Benjamin.

Origin, language, and formation

Beniamin is used in Old English and Romanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benjamin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Romanian, Beniamin is pronounced [ˈbe.nja.min].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 33 boys were recorded with the name Beniamin between 1994 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,635 in 1998.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Beniamin?

Beniamin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 440,000
9 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 228,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
304,691 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Beniamin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 304,691 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Beniamin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Beniamins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Beniamin was born before 1998 — so the typical Beniamin is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
33
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Beniamin 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 2006 (9)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,635
1998

Spellings of Beniamin

Beniamin is not the most common spelling — Benjamin is, with 98.9% against Beniamin'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.

Beniamin around the world

Where Beniamin 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.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2023
    #728
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2006–2020
    #741
    in 2020
  • France
    2013–2025
    #3,931
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2009
    #2,692
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1990–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Beniamin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,635
1998
Peak year
2006
9 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Beniamin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BenyominBenajminBengaminBenhaminBenjeminBenajaminBenjahminBenyaminBennjaminBenjiminBenjerminBenjamminBenelliBenjamimBensleyBennetteBentleighBenediktBinyuminMuhayminBentzyBenjamonBennardBentura

Sibling names for Beniamin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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