Benjie

Where Benjie comes from

Clipping of Benjamin + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Benjie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1935
    First appearance
    #3,252 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1962
    Peak, #1,082
    50 babies named Benjie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,559.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Benjamin.
Namesakes

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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.