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 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#493 · 1 in 2,305
- Tennessee#551 · 1 in 2,828
- Arizona#672 · 1 in 3,636
- Colorado#680 · 1 in 3,836
- Maryland#702 · 1 in 3,816
Best ever in a state: #493 in Iowa, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #493 | 6 | 1 in 2,305 |
| Tennessee | #551 | 13 | 1 in 2,828 |
| Arizona | #672 | 9 | 1 in 3,636 |
| Colorado | #680 | 7 | 1 in 3,836 |
| Maryland | #702 | 6 | 1 in 3,816 |
| Alabama | #765 | 5 | 1 in 4,304 |
| North Carolina | #1,028 | 7 | 1 in 7,353 |
| Ohio | #1,111 | 6 | 1 in 8,756 |
| Texas | #1,135 | 19 | 1 in 9,213 |
| Georgia | #1,350 | 5 | 1 in 10,044 |
| Florida | #1,478 | 7 | 1 in 13,648 |
| California | #1,508 | 11 | 1 in 15,952 |
| New York | #1,760 | 5 | 1 in 16,885 |
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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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 321,453 of them was named Benaiah, which outranked 13.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
Tied with 2,355 names at #14,942; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 9,705 of them was named Benaiah, which outranked 91.6% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,166Denzel177
- #1,166Kilian177
- #1,166Lux177
- #1,169Benaiah176
- #1,169Amado176
- #1,169Eythan176
- #1,169Jean176
- #1,176Arham175
- #1,176Ash175
- #1,176Deandre175
Tied with 6 names at #1,169; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.