Benjimen
- Last seen for boys in 2019 at #12,145
- Peak · boys
- 1953 · 10 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 286since 1917
Benjimen over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Benjimen has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #7,236 | 11 |
| 2008 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
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| 1955 | #3,201 | 7 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,531 | 10 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | #3,645 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #3,289 | 7 |
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| 1926 | #3,708 | 6 |
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| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,950 | 9 |
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| 1919 | #2,877 | 9 |
| 1918 | — | |
| 1917 | #3,981 | 5 |
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First appearance
1917
The first year at least five boys were named Benjimen! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1918, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Benjimen is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Benjimen in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Faded out
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2019
Rise & fade · boys
36 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1953 at #2,531 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1954, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 108,902
- Highest: 1 in 108,902 boys born in 1919 were named Benjimen (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 358,843 boys born in 2019 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,531 in 1953, was only 1 in 197,230 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 21.7% of all boys named Benjimen (62) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 14 | #2,877 (1919) | #3,429 |
| 1920s | 15 | #2,950 (1923) | #3,329 |
| 1930s | 23 | #3,147 (1936) | #3,400 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,668 |
| 1950s | 17 | #2,531 (1953) | #2,866 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,033 (1962) | #4,033 |
| 1970s | 39 | #3,428 (1975) | #4,936 |
| 1980s | 37 | #4,495 (1980) | #5,981 |
| 1990s | 29 | #7,271 (1991) | #8,180 |
| 2000s | 62 | #7,236 (2009) | #8,765 |
| 2010s | 40 | #8,079 (2011) | #10,390 |
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.
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