Benn
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Benn has been given to 382 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1980, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Benn, 2018
1 in 586,000
Benn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Benn?
Benn 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 586,000
- 6 of 3,516,853 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 303,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 406,284 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Benn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Benns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Benn was born before 1978 — so the typical Benn is around 47 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 20.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 312
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (77).
Is Benn 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1980 (11)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.6% average annual change
Spellings of Benn
Benn is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 20.2% against Benn's 0.02%.
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.
Benn around the world
Where Benn 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 & Wales1996–2020#4,608in 2020
- Scotland1991–2007#595in 2007
- Northern Ireland1997–2004#305in 2004
- South Australia1972–1999#539in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Benn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Benn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Benn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.