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Benigno

Boys' name

Benign

Benigno has been given to 1,608 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1990, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Benigno, 2024

1 in 669,000

Benigno over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benigno: meaning, origin, and history

Benign

Spanish

What Benigno means

Benigno means “benign”, associated with benigno.

Origin, language, and formation

Benigno is used in Italian, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Benigno is pronounced /beˈniɡno/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,608 boys were recorded with the name Benigno between 1913 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,652 in 1966.

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 Benigno?

Benigno had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Benigno 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benigno. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benignos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benigno was born before 1975 — so the typical Benigno is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
14.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,240
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 14.2% of all recorded uses (228).

Is Benigno 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (34)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,652
1966

Spellings of Benigno

Benigno is not the most common spelling — Benito is, with 70.2% against Benigno's 7.6%.

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 Benigno is used

Across 1910–2025, Benigno was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 74,440 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —

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. Benigno has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Benigno around the world

Where Benigno 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.

  • France
    1965–1971
    #1,792
    in 1971

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Benigno 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
#1,652
1966
Peak year
1990
34 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,608
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Benigno

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

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Sibling names for Benigno

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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