Benuel
- #3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
- Peak · boys
- 1966 · 12 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 949since 1945
Benuel over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Benuel has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,658 | 30 |
| 2024 | #3,605 | 31 |
| 2023 | #3,883 | 28 |
| 2022 | #3,533 | 32 |
| 2021 | #3,427 | 33 |
| 2020 | #4,020 | 25 |
| 2019 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2016 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #3,684 | 29 |
| 2014 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #4,659 | 20 |
| 2010 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #4,429 | 22 |
| 2008 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #3,909 | 21 |
| 2001 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #3,376 | 23 |
| 1998 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #4,059 | 16 |
| 1996 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #2,791 | 15 |
| 1976 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
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| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #3,231 | 7 |
| 1966 | #2,327 | 12 |
| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
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| 1961 | #4,065 | 5 |
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| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
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| 1952 | #3,734 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
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| 1946 | #2,690 | 8 |
| 1945 | #2,996 | 6 |
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First appearance
1945
The first year at least five boys were named Benuel! It came in at #2,996, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1963, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Benuel is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| Pennsylvania | #546 | 17 | 1 in 3,074 |
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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.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 53 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #3,658)
- 362 spots since 2020 (#4,020 → #3,658)
Rise & fade · boys
21 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1966 at #2,327 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1969, 3 yrs 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 53,015
- Highest: 1 in 53,015 boys born in 2021 were named Benuel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,327 in 1966, was only 1 in 148,622 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 21.5% of all boys named Benuel (204) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 14 | #2,690 (1946) | #2,843 |
| 1950s | 15 | #3,681 (1950) | #3,801 |
| 1960s | 48 | #2,327 (1966) | #3,493 |
| 1970s | 69 | #2,791 (1977) | #4,283 |
| 1980s | 102 | #3,230 (1983) | #4,284 |
| 1990s | 153 | #3,376 (1999) | #4,219 |
| 2000s | 165 | #3,909 (2002) | #5,019 |
| 2010s | 204 | #3,684 (2015) | #4,748 |
| 2020s | 179 | #3,427 (2021) | #3,688 |
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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