Benji
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #1,341 for boys in 2025, 142 births
Given to boys 97.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1975 · 168 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,285since 1952
Benji over time
Rank among boys' names. Benji has never cracked the top 600 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 | — | #1,341 | 142 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,620 | 105 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #1,608 | 108 |
| 2022 | — | #1,414 | 130 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,870 | 82 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #1,579 | 103 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #1,938 | 76 |
| 2018 | — | #1,994 | 73 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,091 | 66 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,551 | 49 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,355 | 55 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,705 | 44 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,582 | 29 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,862 | 19 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,822 | 19 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,099 | 24 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,922 | 19 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,070 | 14 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,210 | 17 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,303 | 16 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,034 | 16 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
| 2003 | — | #6,258 | 11 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,725 | 12 | |
| 2001 | — | #7,536 | 8 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,573 | 16 | |
| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,314 | 9 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,407 | 8 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,360 | 10 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,521 | 9 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,407 | 12 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,705 | 13 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,956 | 15 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,912 | 15 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,972 | 15 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,726 | 33 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,524 | 40 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,435 | 42 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,087 | 64 | |
| 1977 | — | #937 | 82 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #850 | 96 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | #622 | 168 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #1,124 | 53 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #2,311 | 17 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #1,966 | 21 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | — | #2,739 | 12 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,130 | 16 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,894 | 18 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,132 | 14 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,918 | 17 | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | #2,040 | 16 |
| 1963 | — | #1,902 | 18 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,962 | 17 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,706 | 10 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,121 | 15 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,111 | 15 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,724 | 21 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | #2,628 | 10 |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Benji! It came in at #3,095, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1955, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Benji is popular in 1976
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#355 · 1 in 4,253
- Minnesota#355 · 1 in 5,405
- Kentucky#382 · 1 in 5,325
- Alabama#440 · 1 in 5,026
- North Carolina#449 · 1 in 5,177
Best ever in a state: #276 in Minnesota, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #355 | 5 | 1 in 5,405 |
| Tennessee | #355 | 7 | 1 in 4,253 |
| Kentucky | #382 | 5 | 1 in 5,325 |
| Alabama | #440 | 5 | 1 in 5,026 |
| North Carolina | #449 | 7 | 1 in 5,177 |
| Louisiana | #574 | 5 | 1 in 6,079 |
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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 Benji
- 279 spots since 2024 (#1,620 → #1,341)
- 238 spots since 2020 (#1,579 → #1,341)
- 1,014 spots since 2015 (#2,355 → #1,341)
- Biggest jump: 502 spots in 1975 (#1,124 → #622)
- Biggest drop: 228 spots in 1976 (#622 → #850)
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1975 at #622 (168 births)
- Births halved by 1977, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1975–1977
- Highest: 1 in 9,294 boys born in 1975 were named Benji (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,029 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 29.3% of all boys named Benji (670) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 64 | #1,724 (1958) | #2,833 |
| 1960s | 150 | #1,894 (1968) | #2,157 |
| 1970s | 566 | #622 (1975) | #1,604 |
| 1980s | 157 | #1,524 (1980) | #3,956 |
| 1990s | 87 | #4,407 (1990) | #6,327 |
| 2000s | 137 | #4,573 (2000) | #5,877 |
| 2010s | 454 | #1,938 (2019) | #3,100 |
| 2020s | 670 | #1,341 (2025) | #1,572 |
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.
Benji in 1976
Top girls' names in 1976
Top boys' names in 1976
More about 1976
girls
1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 244,183 of them was named Benji, which outranked 25.3% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,569,007 boys got a published name in 1976; 1 in 16,344 of them was named Benji, which outranked 86.9% of the 6,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).