Benjie
Last seen for girls in 1960 at #5,696 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 96.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1962 · 50 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 922since 1935
Benjie over time
Rank among boys' names. Benjie 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 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | #12,349 | 5 | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | — | #10,799 | 6 | |
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| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
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| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
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| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,018 | 14 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,799 | 15 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,780 | 29 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,502 | 36 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,228 | 48 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,546 | 32 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,400 | 36 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,771 | 25 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,203 | 18 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,546 | 30 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,415 | 13 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,650 | 23 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,030 | 15 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,891 | 17 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,559 | 25 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,487 | 28 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,215 | 41 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,082 | 50 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,136 | 48 | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | #1,152 | 46 |
| 1959 | — | #1,302 | 36 | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | #1,483 | 28 |
| 1957 | — | #1,837 | 19 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,298 | 35 | |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 | #1,611 | 23 |
| 1954 | — | #1,826 | 18 | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | #2,905 | 8 |
| 1952 | — | #2,073 | 14 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,838 | 17 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,802 | 8 | |
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| 1947 | — | #2,498 | 10 | |
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| 1945 | — | #1,926 | 13 | |
| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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| 1935 | — | #3,252 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Benjie! It came in at #3,252, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1936–1937, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Benjie is popular in 1958
No state had 5 or more boys named Benjie in 1958, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Benjie
- 341 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1935
- Peaked 1962 at #1,082 (50 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,528 boys born in 1975 were named Benjie (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,082 in 1962, was only 1 in 41,375 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.2% of all boys named Benjie (306) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 18 | #3,113 (1939) | #3,180 |
| 1940s | 50 | #1,926 (1945) | #2,745 |
| 1950s | 203 | #1,298 (1956) | #1,985 |
| 1960s | 306 | #1,082 (1962) | #1,562 |
| 1970s | 283 | #1,228 (1975) | #1,879 |
| 1980s | 46 | #3,838 (1980) | #5,128 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 16 | #10,799 (2021) | #11,719 |
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.
Benjie in 1958
Top girls' names in 1958
Top boys' names in 1958
More about 1958
girls
2,011,619 girls got a published name in 1958; 1 in 251,452 of them was named Benjie, which outranked 35.7% of the 7,030 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,193Yetta9
- #4,193Yevonne9
- #4,193Zoeann9
- #4,520Benjie8
- #4,520Abra8
- #4,520Adena8
- #4,520Adora8
- #4,890Adelfa7
- #4,890Adonna7
- #4,890Agustina7
Tied with 369 names at #4,520; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,122,409 boys got a published name in 1958; 1 in 75,800 of them was named Benjie, which outranked 67.1% of the 4,502 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,446Teodoro29
- #1,446Thom29
- #1,446Wilber29
- #1,483Benjie28
- #1,483Antonia28
- #1,483Arlo28
- #1,483Armond28
- #1,511Anselmo27
- #1,511Bartley27
- #1,511Donato27
Tied with 27 names at #1,483; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.