Bena
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1880 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 642since 1880
Bena over time
Rank among girls' names. Bena has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 |
| 1934 | #2,923 | 9 |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,845 | 10 |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 |
| 1927 | #2,699 | 12 |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 |
| 1925 | #3,362 | 9 |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 |
| 1921 | #2,633 | 13 |
| 1920 | #2,263 | 16 |
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 |
| 1918 | #2,209 | 16 |
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 |
| 1916 | #2,498 | 12 |
| 1915 | #2,384 | 12 |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 |
| 1913 | #2,331 | 8 |
| 1912 | #2,360 | 7 |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | #2,140 | 6 |
| 1909 | #1,957 | 6 |
| 1908 | #2,101 | 5 |
| 1907 | #2,061 | 5 |
| 1906 | #1,727 | 6 |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,592 | 6 |
| 1902 | #1,320 | 8 |
| 1901 | #1,679 | 5 |
| 1900 | #1,932 | 5 |
| 1899 | #1,394 | 6 |
| 1898 | #1,098 | 10 |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | #1,426 | 6 |
| 1894 | #1,061 | 9 |
| 1893 | #1,277 | 6 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | #1,213 | 6 |
| 1890 | #1,210 | 6 |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,276 | 5 |
| 1887 | #937 | 7 |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | #817 | 6 |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #738 | 6 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Bena was already there! It came in at #738, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1882, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Bena is popular in 1918
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#868 · 1 in 9,905
Best ever in a state: #868 in Texas, 1918.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #868 | 5 | 1 in 9,905 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bena
- 3,156 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #11,932)
- 2,550 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #11,932)
- Biggest drop: 339 spots in 1888 (#937 → #1,276)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #738 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · 1880–1887
- Highest: 1 in 15,166 girls born in 1880 were named Bena (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 13.4% of all girls named Bena (86) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 24 | #738 (1880) | #942 |
| 1890s | 49 | #1,061 (1894) | #1,240 |
| 1900s | 46 | #1,320 (1902) | #1,796 |
| 1910s | 83 | #2,140 (1910) | #2,663 |
| 1920s | 86 | #2,263 (1920) | #3,707 |
| 1930s | 51 | #2,845 (1930) | #3,428 |
| 1940s | 38 | #3,706 (1947) | #4,198 |
| 1950s | 35 | #4,740 (1955) | #5,305 |
| 1960s | 28 | #4,625 (1967) | #5,500 |
| 1970s | 45 | #5,776 (1974) | #7,880 |
| 1980s | 36 | #8,047 (1983) | #9,562 |
| 1990s | 23 | #10,193 (1990) | #12,345 |
| 2000s | 33 | #12,408 (2003) | #13,673 |
| 2010s | 38 | #11,356 (2019) | #14,215 |
| 2020s | 27 | #9,616 (2023) | #12,986 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bena in 1918
Top girls' names in 1918
More about 1918
girls
1,157,631 girls got a published name in 1918; 1 in 72,352 of them was named Bena, which outranked 60.4% of the 5,585 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,102Wylma17
- #2,102Yola17
- #2,102Zela17
- #2,209Bena16
- #2,209Argie16
- #2,209Berdena16
- #2,209Byrdie16
- #2,289Ala15
- #2,289Alethea15
- #2,289Allyne15
Tied with 79 names at #2,209; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 547Jesse#1,507 → #960
- ↑ 494Liberty#1,079 → #585
- ↑ 389Marilynn#1,337 → #948
- ↑ 312Margueritte#1,281 → #969
- ↑ 306Syble#807 → #501
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.