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

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Peak · boys
1962 · 50 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
922
since 1935

Benjie over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Benjie has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201957peak #1,082, 1962boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#12,0085
2024#12,3495
2023
2022
2021#10,7996
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1989#5,6158
1988#6,4266
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1985#5,7856
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1982#4,5938
1981#4,5098
1980#3,83810
1979#3,01814
1978#2,79915
1977#1,78029
1976#1,50236
1975#1,22848
1974#1,54632
1973#1,40036
1972#1,77125
1971#2,20318
1970#1,54630
1969#2,41513
1968#1,65023
1967#2,03015
1966#1,89117
1965#1,55925
1964#1,48728
1963#1,21541
1962#1,08250
1961#1,13648
1960#5,6966#1,15246
1959#1,30236
1958#4,5208#1,48328
1957#1,83719
1956#1,29835
1955#3,37712#1,61123
1954#1,82618
1953#5,6735#2,9058
1952#2,07314
1951#1,83817
1950#3,6815
1949#2,8028
1948
1947#2,49810
1946
1945#1,92613
1944#3,4305
1943
1942#2,9407
1941#2,8727
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1939#3,1136
1938#3,1756
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First appearance
1935

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.

See more about Benjie
Momentum · boys
Brand new
  • 341 spots since 2024 (#12,349#12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1935
  • Peaked 1962 at #1,082 (50 births)
  • Births halved by 1965, 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 32,528
  • 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
Era · boys
The 1960s
  • 33.2% of all boys named Benjie (306) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s18#3,113 (1939)#3,180
1940s50#1,926 (1945)#2,745
1950s203#1,298 (1956)#1,985
1960s306#1,082 (1962)#1,562
1970s283#1,228 (1975)#1,879
1980s46#3,838 (1980)#5,128
1990s0
2000s0
2010s0
2020s16#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 1957

boys
#1,837
19 births · 1 in 113,539 boys

Top boys' names in 1957

  1. #1Michael92,781
  2. #2James84,337
  3. #3David82,403
  4. #4Robert81,765
  5. #5John79,033
  6. #6William56,852
  7. #7Mark52,841
  8. #8Richard52,446
  9. #9Thomas44,625
  10. #10Steven36,842
  11. #1,837Benjie19
More about 1957

boys

2,157,236 boys got a published name in 1957; 1 in 113,539 of them was named Benjie, which outranked 59.6% of the 4,552 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Benjie
  1. #1,791Vivian20
  2. #1,791Willaim20
  3. #1,791Zackary20
  4. #1,837Benjie19
  5. #1,837Artemio19
  6. #1,837Bernhard19
  7. #1,837Bernice19
  8. #1,887Allie18
  9. #1,887Aloysius18
  10. #1,887Alvino18

Tied with 49 names at #1,837; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1956
Risers
  1. 714Dion#1,642#928
  2. 404Wes#1,317#913
  3. 371Antoine#1,232#861
  4. 340Domenick#1,335#995
  5. 329Mitch#868#539
Fallers
  1. 458Lannie#999#1,457
  2. 402Desi#986#1,388
  3. 354Gavin#924#1,278
  4. 317Murphy#917#1,234
  5. 288Eliot#897#1,185

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1957