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Benjy

#9,022 in 2025Boys' name

A Canadian hundred-dollar note, through Benjamin

Benjy has been given to 362 babies in the U.S. since 1936. In 2025 it ranked #9,022 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Benjy, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benjy: meaning, origin, and history

A Canadian hundred-dollar note, through Benjamin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Benjy means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Benjy is used in English.

Benjy comes through Indonesian diminutive.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benjamin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 362 boys were recorded with the name Benjy between 1936 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 1974; its best national rank was #1,664 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,255 in 2020 to #9,022 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Benjy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,022
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Benjy 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benjy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benjys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benjy was born before 1971 — so the typical Benjy is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
356
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1970s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (153).

Is Benjy 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
+3,233
Places climbed
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
27.6%
Peak was 1974 (29)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,664
1974

Spellings of Benjy

Benjy is not the most common spelling — Henry is, with 76.7% against Benjy's 0.04%.

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 Benjy is used

Across 1910–2025, Benjy was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 988,020 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 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. Benjy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Benjy around the world

Where Benjy 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
    2003–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1989–2024
    #6,800
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Benjy by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,022
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,233
Best rank ever
#1,664
1974
Peak year
1974
29 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
362
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Benjy

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

BennoBenceBentoBenoitBensenBenettBensynBeniBeniahBenjieBenuelBenjiBennBenjamynBennetBenzionBentlyBentzionBenenBenniBenfordBengieBenyBenyamin

Sibling names for Benjy

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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