Benjamyn
#9,828 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Benjamyn has been given to 398 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #9,828 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Benjamyn, 2025
1 in 474,000
Benjamyn over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Benjamyn?
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
- #9,828
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Benjamyn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benjamyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Benjamyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Benjamyn was born before 2011 — so the typical Benjamyn is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 398
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (152).
Is Benjamyn 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
- +2,749
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,349
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,115
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.58×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 36.8%
- Peak was 2007 (19)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.5% average annual change
Spellings of Benjamyn
Benjamyn is not the most common spelling — Benjamin is, with 98.5% against Benjamyn's 0.05%.
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.
Benjamyn around the world
Where Benjamyn 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 & Wales1997–2003#2,857in 2003
- France1993–2010#5,028in 2010
- Canada2000–2022#2,959in 2022
- South Australia1981–2013#499in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Benjamyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Benjamyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Benjamyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.