Bentzion

#3,858 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Bentzion has been given to 561 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #3,858 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Bentzion, 2025

1 in 118,000

Bentzion over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Bentzion?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,858
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bentzion 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bentzion. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bentzions were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bentzion was born before 2014 — so the typical Bentzion is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
561
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2010s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (197).

Is Bentzion 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
−1,102
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,622
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−163
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.97×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.6%
Peak was 2024 (47)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,756
2024

Spellings of Bentzion

Bentzion is not the most common spelling — Benton is, with 86.4% against Bentzion's 4.7%.

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 Bentzion is used

Across 1910–2025, Bentzion was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 53,953 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 50,000).

22 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000

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. Bentzion has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bentzion by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,858
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,622
Best rank ever
#2,756
2024
Peak year
2024
47 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
561
Count in 2025
28

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Sibling names for Bentzion

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