Benard
Benard is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 859th, in 1906.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195638 births
- Best rank
- #859in 1906
- Since 1890
- 1,644people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,644 boys have been named Benard in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 38 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 38 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1950s alone account for 16%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Benard | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 10 | |
| 1900s | 15 | |
| 1910s | 148 | |
| 1920s | 252 | |
| 1930s | 219 | |
| 1940s | 198 | |
| 1950s | 261 | |
| 1960s | 210 | |
| 1970s | 110 | |
| 1980s | 76 | |
| 1990s | 87 | |
| 2000s | 41 | |
| 2010s | 11 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Benard was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1956 were Michael, James, Robert, David and John. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Benard
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Raoulpeak 1928
- Stanfordpeak 1954
- Denzilpeak 1937
- Wymanpeak 1922
- Elroypeak 1922
- Lylepeak 1922
- Lenwoodpeak 1949
- Melvinpeak 1928
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.