Ben

Where Ben comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ben.

Ben through the years
  1. 1572
    Ben Jonson born
    English playwright, poet, and actor
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #58 among boys, with 305 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1889
    Peak, #43
    453 babies named Ben, its best rank.
  4. 1972
    Ben Affleck born
    American film actor, director and screenwriter
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Ben Affleck · American film actor, director and screenwriter, born 1972
  • Ben Jonson · English playwright, poet, and actor, 1572–1637
  • Ben Kingsley · English actor, born 1943
  • Ben Roy Mottelson · Danish-American nuclear physicist, 1926–2022
  • Ben Foster · English association football player, born 1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.