Benaiah
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #1,169 for boys in 2025, 176 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 176 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,416since 1976
Benaiah over time
Rank among boys' names. Benaiah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,169 | 176 |
| 2024 | — | #1,243 | 159 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,489 | 120 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,393 | 133 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,182 | 166 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,415 | 122 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,209 | 158 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,343 | 134 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,378 | 128 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,382 | 128 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,416 | 121 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,608 | 97 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,695 | 87 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,626 | 95 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,017 | 67 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,169 | 61 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,623 | 47 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,879 | 41 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,920 | 40 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,083 | 35 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,615 | 26 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,007 | 16 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,616 | 17 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,703 | 16 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,390 | 13 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,297 | 13 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,162 | 17 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,873 | 13 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,830 | 17 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,407 | 8 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,697 | 12 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,476 | 12 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,811 | 10 | |
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
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| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
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| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Benaiah! It came in at #4,418, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1980, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Benaiah is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#723 · 1 in 4,136
- Indiana#857 · 1 in 5,267
- Washington#882 · 1 in 5,276
- Pennsylvania#991 · 1 in 7,432
- Tennessee#1,027 · 1 in 7,146
Best ever in a state: #493 in Iowa, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #723 | 6 | 1 in 4,136 |
| Indiana | #857 | 6 | 1 in 5,267 |
| Washington | #882 | 6 | 1 in 5,276 |
| Pennsylvania | #991 | 7 | 1 in 7,432 |
| Tennessee | #1,027 | 5 | 1 in 7,146 |
| Florida | #1,349 | 8 | 1 in 11,778 |
| Texas | #1,481 | 12 | 1 in 14,784 |
| California | #1,605 | 10 | 1 in 17,987 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Benaiah
- 74 spots since 2024 (#1,243 → #1,169)
- 246 spots since 2020 (#1,415 → #1,169)
- 247 spots since 2015 (#1,416 → #1,169)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2025 at #1,169 (176 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,705 boys born in 2025 were named Benaiah (0.01%)
- 44.5% of all boys named Benaiah (1,076) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 24 | #4,418 (1976) | #5,169 |
| 1980s | 58 | #4,141 (1983) | #5,352 |
| 1990s | 118 | #3,830 (1996) | #5,123 |
| 2000s | 264 | #2,623 (2009) | #4,013 |
| 2010s | 1,076 | #1,209 (2019) | #1,584 |
| 2020s | 876 | #1,169 (2025) | #1,315 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Benaiah in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 14,255 of them was named Benaiah, which outranked 89.5% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,485Psalm121
- #1,485Truth121
- #1,485Tymir121
- #1,489Benaiah120
- #1,489Amani120
- #1,489Coby120
- #1,489Huxton120
- #1,498Arman119
- #1,498Pierson119
- #1,498Sulaiman119
Tied with 8 names at #1,489; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.