Benigna

Girls' name

Feminine form of Benigno

Benigna has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1915, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Benigna, 1987

1 in 515,000

Benigna over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benigna: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Benigno

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Benigna means

Benigna is a feminine form of Benigno.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Benigna is used in Spanish, Italian (Rare), Portuguese (Rare) and Ancient Roman.

Another recorded pronunciation is /be.ˈniɣ.na/ and /be.ˈniɲ.ɲa/ for Benigna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Benigna → Benigno. The family’s meaning is “benign”, recorded in Italian with the source elements benigno.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benigno.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 girls were recorded with the name Benigna between 1915 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1915; its best national rank was #2,922 in 1915.

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.

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How common is Benigna?

Benigna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987: 1 in 515,000; 7 of 3,605,072 births
Among girls only: 1 in 248,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1987: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 356,979 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Benigna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 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 356,979 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benigna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benignas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benigna was born before 1928 — so the typical Benigna is around 97 today.

Median birth year: 1928; About 97 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 12.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 17; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Benigna 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 1915 (9)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,922; 1915

Spellings of Benigna

Benigna is not the most common spelling — Benita is, with 86.6% against Benigna's 0.60%.

Benita86.6%13,669
Betina6.4%1,016
Penina6.4%1,009
Benigna0.60%95

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 Benigna is used

Across 1910–2025, Benigna was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Benigna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Benigna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,922; 1915
Peak year: 1915; 9 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 1987
All-time count: 95
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Benigna

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

Benelli Bennet Benisha Benicia Benni Bentlie Benson Bennita Bently Bentli Bennette Bentlee Beni Bentlei Bennye Benecia Benilde Benetta Benina Beneva Bennetta Benaiah Benedicta Beneta

Sibling names for Benigna

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

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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