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Benzion

#3,671 in 2025Boys' name

From Hebrew בֶּנְצִיּוֹן; literal meaning unconfirmed

Benzion has been given to 1,084 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #3,671 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Benzion, 2025

1 in 111,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benzion: meaning, origin, and history

From Hebrew בֶּנְצִיּוֹן; literal meaning unconfirmed

Hebrew

What Benzion means

Benzion is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hebrew בֶּנְצִיּוֹן (Bentsiyón), a compound of בֶּן (ben) + צִיּוֹן (Tsiyón), literally “son of Zion”.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Benzion (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Benzion is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Benzion comes through Hebrew בֶּנְצִיּוֹן.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,084 boys were recorded with the name Benzion between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,119 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,734 in 2020 to #3,671 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,375 in 2015 to #3,671 in 2025.

How common is Benzion?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,671
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Benzion 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benzion. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Benzions were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benzion was born before 2004 — so the typical Benzion is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,084
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Choose a decade

2010s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (270).

Is Benzion 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
−502
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,063
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−296
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.91×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.9%
Peak was 2024 (38)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,119
1985

Spellings of Benzion

Benzion is not the most common spelling — Benson is, with 51.1% against Benzion's 3.9%.

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 Benzion is used

Across 1910–2025, Benzion was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 21,153 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 16,667
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Benzion has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Benzion around the world

Where Benzion 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
    1999–2020
    #3,848
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Benzion by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,671
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,063
Best rank ever
#2,119
1985
Peak year
2024
38 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,084
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Benzion

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

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Sibling names for Benzion

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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