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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Benita” in the USA?

Number of people named “Benita” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Benita” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Benita” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Benita” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Benita” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Benita” by birth year

This chart shows how “Benita” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1889 5 0.000017304 5 100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 100%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 100%
1902 10 0.000025858 10 100%
1904 9 0.000022306 9 100%
1905 14 0.000033025 14 100%
1906 12 0.000028008 12 100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 100%
1908 14 0.00002865 14 100%
1909 12 0.000023473 12 100%
1910 19 0.000032165 19 100%
1911 30 0.000046564 30 100%
1912 30 0.000030362 30 100%
1913 26 0.000022865 26 100%
1914 40 0.000028242 40 100%
1915 49 0.000026741 49 100%
1916 45 0.000023263 45 100%
1917 50 0.000024916 50 100%
1918 69 0.000031781 69 100%
1919 64 0.000030328 64 100%
1920 57 0.000025192 57 100%
1921 50 0.000021418 50 100%
1922 51 0.000022279 51 100%
1923 64 0.000027796 64 100%
1924 81 0.000034011 81 100%
1925 56 0.000024 56 100%
1926 82 0.000035716 82 100%
1927 68 0.000029318 68 100%
1928 71 0.000031403 71 100%
1929 88 0.000040143 88 100%
1930 78 0.000035083 78 100%
1931 97 0.000046094 97 100%
1932 79 0.000037418 79 100%
1933 132 0.000066018 132 100%
1934 123 0.000059225 123 100%
1935 124 0.000059333 124 100%
1936 134 0.000064498 134 100%
1937 112 0.000052566 112 100%
1938 92 0.000041581 92 100%
1939 98 0.000044476 98 100%
1940 79 0.000034308 79 100%
1941 96 0.000039402 96 100%
1942 84 0.000030749 84 100%
1943 88 0.000031177 88 100%
1944 86 0.000031969 86 100%
1945 88 0.000033171 88 100%
1946 122 0.000038181 122 100%
1947 127 0.000035255 127 100%
1948 163 0.000047212 163 100%
1949 184 0.000052801 184 100%
1950 190 0.000054234 190 100%
1951 255 0.000069223 255 100%
1952 243 0.000063981 243 100%
1953 250 0.000064874 250 100%
1954 297 0.00007461 297 100%
1955 315 0.000078454 315 100%
1956 283 0.000068639 283 100%
1957 317 0.000075438 317 100%
1958 345 0.000083456 345 100%
1959 394 0.000094757 394 100%
1960 475 0.000114353 475 100%
1961 480 0.000115878 480 100%
1962 449 0.000111266 449 100%
1963 399 0.000100803 399 100%
1964 371 0.000095432 371 100%
1965 377 0.000103987 377 100%
1966 311 0.00008948 311 100%
1967 302 0.000088957 302 100%
1968 278 0.000082287 278 100%
1969 278 0.000079993 278 100%
1970 286 0.000079301 286 100%
1971 219 0.000063805 219 100%
1972 209 0.000066497 209 100%
1973 172 0.000057012 172 100%
1974 156 0.000051316 156 100%
1975 161 0.000053322 161 100%
1976 136 0.000044821 136 100%
1977 158 0.00004974 158 100%
1978 136 0.00004285 136 100%
1979 138 0.000041479 138 100%
1980 126 0.00003658 126 100%
1981 127 0.000036712 127 100%
1982 126 0.000035918 126 100%
1983 98 0.000028296 98 100%
1984 89 0.000025511 89 100%
1985 93 0.000026057 93 100%
1986 71 0.00001996 71 100%
1987 75 0.000020801 75 100%
1988 60 0.000016238 60 100%
1989 84 0.00002185 84 100%
1990 62 0.000015686 62 100%
1991 66 0.000016944 66 100%
1992 77 0.000020045 77 100%
1993 45 0.000011935 45 100%
1994 46 0.000012373 46 100%
1995 46 0.000012561 46 100%
1996 39 0.000010693 39 100%
1997 37 0.000010205 37 100%
1998 29 0.000007884 29 100%
1999 27 0.000007309 27 100%
2000 27 0.000007143 27 100%
2001 23 0.000006144 23 100%
2002 28 0.00000749 28 100%
2003 16 0.000004208 16 100%
2004 21 0.000005496 21 100%
2005 21 0.000005462 21 100%
2006 20 0.000005055 20 100%
2007 25 0.000006254 25 100%
2008 18 0.000004579 18 100%
2009 22 0.000005759 22 100%
2010 17 0.0000046 17 100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 100%
2012 23 0.000006289 23 100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 100%
2015 22 0.000005944 22 100%
2016 14 0.000003816 14 100%
2017 12 0.000003356 12 100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 100%
2020 11 0.000003293 11 100%
2021 20 0.000005903 20 100%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 100%
2023 15 0.00000453 15 100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 100%

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