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Benjie

#12,281 in 2025Boys' name

A Canadian hundred-dollar note, through Benjamin

Benjie has been given to 953 babies in the U.S. since 1935. In 2025 it ranked #12,281 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Benjie, 2025

1 in 663,000

Benjie over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benjie: meaning, origin, and history

A Canadian hundred-dollar note, through Benjamin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Benjie means

Benjie belongs to the name family reached through Benjie → Benjamin. Its meaning is “A Canadian hundred-dollar note”.

Origin, language, and formation

Benjie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benjamin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 922 boys were recorded with the name Benjie between 1935 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1962; its best national rank was #1,082 in 1962.

In the United States, 31 girls were recorded with the name Benjie between 1953 and 1960. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1955; its best national rank was #3,395 in 1955.

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 Benjie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,281
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Benjie 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benjie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benjies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benjie was born before 1964 — so the typical Benjie is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
854
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1960s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (306).

Is Benjie 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
+297
Places climbed
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
10.0%
Peak was 1962 (50)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,082
1962

Spellings of Benjie

Benjie is not the most common spelling — Bennie is, with 61.8% against Benjie's 1.1%.

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 Benjie is used

Across 1910–2025, Benjie was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 616,548 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7South Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Benjie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Benjie around the world

Where Benjie 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.

  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Benjie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,281
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,082
1962
Peak year
1962
50 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
922
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,395
1955
Peak year
1955
12 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
1960
All-time count
31
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Benjie

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

BenuelBennetBensenBenoitBenzionBentlyBenettBensynBenjiBenyaminBenjyBenaiahBeniahBenardBennoBentzionBenceBentleeBenedettoBenjamynBenicioBentonBentoBenigno

Sibling names for Benjie

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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