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Benjamen

#9,827 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Benjamen has been given to 3,687 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #9,827 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Benjamen, 2025

1 in 474,000

Benjamen over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benjamen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Benjamen means

Benjamen is a given name.

The naming story behind Benjamen

Wikidata records Benjamen as a given name. The entity identifier is Q106535677, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,687 boys were recorded with the name Benjamen between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1990; its best national rank was #667 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,156 in 2020 to #9,827 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,368 in 2015 to #9,827 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.

How common is Benjamen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,827
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Benjamen 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benjamen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benjamens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benjamen was born before 1986 — so the typical Benjamen is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,236
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (776).

Is Benjamen 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
+1,293
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,671
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,459
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.1%
Peak was 1990 (99)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#667
1884

Spellings of Benjamen

Benjamen is not the most common spelling — Benjamin is, with 98.5% against Benjamen's 0.44%.

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 Benjamen is used

Across 1910–2025, Benjamen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 181,975 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Iowa1 in 100,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 100,000

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

Benjamen around the world

Where Benjamen 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
    1996–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    2008–2008
    #698
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1991–2014
    #2,672
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1967–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Benjamen

People whose public names include Benjamen, 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.

Benjamen in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Benjamen. Linked forms have their own page here.

Benjamin

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Benjamen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,827
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,671
Best rank ever
#667
1884
Peak year
1990
99 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,687
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Benjamen

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

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Names with a curve like Benjamen

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

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Sibling names for Benjamen

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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