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How popular is “Benjamen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Benjamen” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Benjamen” 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 “Benjamen” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Benjamen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Benjamen” 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
1884 9 0.000036967 9 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1894 6 0.000017715 6 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 -100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1915 16 0.000008732 16 -100%
1916 14 0.000007237 14 -100%
1917 12 0.00000598 12 -100%
1918 15 0.000006909 15 -100%
1919 16 0.000007582 16 -100%
1920 13 0.000005745 13 -100%
1921 17 0.000007282 17 -100%
1922 15 0.000006553 15 -100%
1923 9 0.000003909 9 -100%
1924 13 0.000005458 13 -100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 -100%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 -100%
1927 21 0.000009054 21 -100%
1928 14 0.000006192 14 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1930 12 0.000005397 12 -100%
1931 13 0.000006178 13 -100%
1933 9 0.000004501 9 -100%
1934 12 0.000005778 12 -100%
1935 11 0.000005263 11 -100%
1936 14 0.000006739 14 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 -100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 -100%
1941 8 0.000003283 8 -100%
1943 9 0.000003189 9 -100%
1944 15 0.000005576 15 -100%
1945 13 0.0000049 13 -100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 -100%
1947 11 0.000003054 11 -100%
1948 17 0.000004924 17 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1950 13 0.000003711 13 -100%
1951 17 0.000004615 17 -100%
1952 22 0.000005793 22 -100%
1953 18 0.000004671 18 -100%
1954 21 0.000005275 21 -100%
1955 18 0.000004483 18 -100%
1956 15 0.000003638 15 -100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 15 0.000003608 15 -100%
1960 18 0.000004333 18 -100%
1961 16 0.000003863 16 -100%
1962 12 0.000002974 12 -100%
1963 19 0.0000048 19 -100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 -100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 -100%
1967 15 0.000004418 15 -100%
1968 24 0.000007104 24 -100%
1969 17 0.000004892 17 -100%
1970 24 0.000006655 24 -100%
1971 24 0.000006992 24 -100%
1972 26 0.000008272 26 -100%
1973 43 0.000014253 43 -100%
1974 60 0.000019737 60 -100%
1975 58 0.000019209 58 -100%
1976 85 0.000028013 85 -100%
1977 88 0.000027703 88 -100%
1978 88 0.000027726 88 -100%
1979 71 0.000021341 71 -100%
1980 67 0.000019451 67 -100%
1981 85 0.000024571 85 -100%
1982 80 0.000022805 80 -100%
1983 74 0.000021367 74 -100%
1984 84 0.000024077 84 -100%
1985 75 0.000021014 75 -100%
1986 72 0.000020241 72 -100%
1987 73 0.000020246 73 -100%
1988 78 0.000021109 78 -100%
1989 88 0.00002289 88 -100%
1990 99 0.000025048 99 -100%
1991 60 0.000015403 60 -100%
1992 64 0.000016661 64 -100%
1993 77 0.000020423 77 -100%
1994 70 0.000018829 70 -100%
1995 61 0.000016657 61 -100%
1996 81 0.000022209 81 -100%
1997 71 0.000019582 71 -100%
1998 72 0.000019575 72 -100%
1999 60 0.000016243 60 -100%
2000 65 0.000017196 65 -100%
2001 67 0.000017898 67 -100%
2002 57 0.000015248 57 -100%
2003 65 0.000017095 65 -100%
2004 52 0.000013609 52 -100%
2005 70 0.000018206 70 -100%
2006 51 0.000012891 51 -100%
2007 42 0.000010506 42 -100%
2008 50 0.00001272 50 -100%
2009 46 0.000012041 46 -100%
2010 39 0.000010553 39 -100%
2011 46 0.000012576 46 -100%
2012 28 0.000007656 28 -100%
2013 29 0.000007955 29 -100%
2014 20 0.000005396 20 -100%
2015 13 0.000003513 13 -100%
2016 26 0.000007087 26 -100%
2017 18 0.000005033 18 -100%
2018 14 0.000003982 14 -100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 -100%
2020 9 0.000002694 9 -100%
2021 13 0.000003837 13 -100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 -100%
2023 12 0.000003624 12 -100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

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