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Benicio

#672 in 2025Boys' name

Surname transferred into given-name use

Benicio has been given to 4,665 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #672 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 405 recorded.

Babies named Benicio, 2025

1 in 8,190

Benicio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benicio: meaning, origin, and history

Surname transferred into given-name use

Spanish

What Benicio means

Benicio is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Benicio is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /be.ˈni.sjo/ and /be.ˈni.θjo/ for Benicio.

The naming story behind Benicio

Benicio is a given name adopted from surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

Origin, language, and formation

Benicio is used in English and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Benicio comes through Spanish Benicio.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Benicio is pronounced /beˈniθjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,665 boys were recorded with the name Benicio between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 405 in 2025; its best national rank was #672 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #773 in 2020 to #672 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,328 in 2015 to #672 in 2025.

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 Benicio?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,190
405 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,220
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#672
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,675 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Benicio 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 2025 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,675 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benicio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benicios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benicio was born before 2018 — so the typical Benicio is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,665
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (2,013).

Is Benicio 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
+82
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+101
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+656
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (405)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#672
2025

Spellings of Benicio

Benicio is not the most common spelling — Benito is, with 70.2% against Benicio's 22.2%.

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.

Where Benicio is used

Across 2016–2025, Benicio was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 1,852 boys, against 1 in 5,260 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 50,000).

254 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 1,852
  2. 2California1 in 2,564
  3. 3Arizona1 in 2,857
  4. 4Illinois1 in 3,030
  5. 5Colorado1 in 4,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 4,167
  7. 7Nevada1 in 4,348
  8. 8Florida1 in 4,545

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Benicio is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 89% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Benicio around the world

Where Benicio 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
    2004–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    2002–2025
    #1,854
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,331
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Benicio

People whose public names include Benicio, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Benicio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#672
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 101
Best rank ever
#672
2025
Peak year
2025
405 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,665
Count in 2025
405

Names similar to Benicio

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

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Names with a curve like Benicio

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Benicio, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ZaydZahirZamirYahyaAriesBodenElielKyrenDakariAyanGatlinAdler

Sibling names for Benicio

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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