Benjiman
#7,254 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Benjiman has been given to 4,307 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #7,254 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 89 recorded.
Babies named Benjiman, 2025
1 in 301,000
Benjiman 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Benjiman?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,254
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Benjiman 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benjiman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Benjimans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Benjiman was born before 1941 — so the typical Benjiman is around 84 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 14.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,976
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 14.8% of all recorded uses (636).
Is Benjiman 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
- +2,780
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,195
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,949
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.48×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 12.4%
- Peak was 1921 (89)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.4% average annual change
Spellings of Benjiman
Benjiman is not the most common spelling — Benjamin is, with 98.8% against Benjiman's 0.51%.
Where Benjiman is used
Across 1910–2025, Benjiman was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 187,795 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 50,000
- 2South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 3Alabama1 in 100,000
- 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 5Oklahoma1 in 100,000
- 6Texas1 in 100,000
- 7Virginia1 in 100,000
- 8Arkansas1 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. Benjiman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Benjiman around the world
Where Benjiman 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 & Wales1996–2008#3,687in 2008
- Canada2015–2018#2,536in 2018
- South Australia1971–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Benjiman by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Benjiman
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Benjiman
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Benjiman, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Benjiman
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.