Benton
Benton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 149 births. Its best rank was 413th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1490.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2016277 births
- Best rank
- #413in 1883
- Since 1880
- 10,310people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,310 boys have been named Benton in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 277 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 2010s alone account for 22%. It has spent 89 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Benton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 125 | |
| 1890s | 81 | |
| 1900s | 110 | |
| 1910s | 542 | |
| 1920s | 770 | |
| 1930s | 601 | |
| 1940s | 627 | |
| 1950s | 593 | |
| 1960s | 590 | |
| 1970s | 516 | |
| 1980s | 718 | |
| 1990s | 952 | |
| 2000s | 1,081 | |
| 2010s | 2,223 | |
| 2020s | 781 |
In 2016, its biggest year
Benton was the 822nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Benton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Solomonpeak 2016
- Felixpeak 2024
- Judsonpeak 2023
- Simonpeak 2015
- Jeffersonpeak 2009
- Houstonpeak 2021
- Samuelpeak 2001
- Edsonpeak 2019
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.