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Benjamine

Boys' name

Feminine form of Benjamin

Benjamine has been given to 1,807 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1919, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Benjamine, 2018

1 in 703,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benjamine: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Benjamin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Benjamine means

Benjamine is a feminine form of Benjamin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Benjamine is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /bɛ̃.ʒa.min/ for Benjamine.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Benjamine is a feminine form of Benjamin. Benjamin has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benjamin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,807 boys were recorded with the name Benjamine between 1880 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1919; its best national rank was #419 in 1881.

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 Benjamine?

Benjamine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Benjamine 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benjamine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benjamines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benjamine was born before 1962 — so the typical Benjamine is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
13.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,034
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1980s — 13.8% of all recorded uses (249).

Is Benjamine 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (35)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#419
1881

Spellings of Benjamine

Benjamine is not the most common spelling — Benjamin is, with 99.0% against Benjamine's 0.22%.

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 Benjamine is used

Across 1910–2025, Benjamine was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,226,773 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Mississippi1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5South Carolina1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 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. Benjamine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Benjamine around the world

Where Benjamine 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
    2001–2002
    #3,225
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1971–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Benjamine 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
#419
1881
Peak year
1919
35 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
1,807
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Benjamine

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

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Sibling names for Benjamine

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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