Benjamine

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Benjamine is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 419th, in 1881.

Rank in 2024: —fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024: 0not in the data
Peak year: 191935 births
Best rank: #419in 1881
Since 1880: 1,807people given the name

Babies named Benjamine, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

1,807 boys have been named Benjamine in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 35 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 35 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1980s alone account for 14%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Benjamine
1880s	118
1890s	65
1900s	29
1910s	179
1920s	181
1930s	103
1940s	98
1950s	107
1960s	139
1970s	202
1980s	249
1990s	154
2000s	124
2010s	59

In 1919, its biggest year

Benjamine was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.

Names that rose and fell with Benjamine

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.