Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Benji” in the USA?

Number of people named “Benji” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Benji” by birth year

This chart shows how “Benji” 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
1952 7 0.000001843 7 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1956 16 0.000003881 6 10 -25%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 21 0.00000508 21 -100%
1959 15 0.000003608 15 -100%
1960 15 0.000003611 15 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1962 17 0.000004213 17 -100%
1963 18 0.000004548 18 -100%
1964 21 0.000005402 5 16 -52%
1965 17 0.000004689 17 -100%
1966 14 0.000004028 14 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1968 18 0.000005328 18 -100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 -100%
1970 12 0.000003327 12 -100%
1971 16 0.000004662 5 11 -38%
1972 26 0.000008272 5 21 -62%
1973 23 0.000007624 6 17 -48%
1974 59 0.000019408 6 53 -80%
1975 176 0.00005829 8 168 -91%
1976 102 0.000033616 6 96 -88%
1977 82 0.000025815 82 -100%
1978 64 0.000020165 64 -100%
1979 42 0.000012624 42 -100%
1980 40 0.000011613 40 -100%
1981 33 0.000009539 33 -100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 -100%
1983 15 0.000004331 15 -100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 -100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1988 13 0.000003518 13 -100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 -100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 -100%
1992 11 0.000002864 11 -100%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 -100%
1994 9 0.000002421 9 -100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 -100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 -100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 16 0.000004233 16 -100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 -100%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 -100%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 -100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2005 16 0.000004161 16 -100%
2006 16 0.000004044 16 -100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 -100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 -100%
2009 19 0.000004974 19 -100%
2010 24 0.000006494 24 -100%
2011 19 0.000005194 19 -100%
2012 19 0.000005195 19 -100%
2013 29 0.000007955 29 -100%
2014 44 0.000011871 44 -100%
2015 55 0.000014861 55 -100%
2016 49 0.000013356 49 -100%
2017 66 0.000018455 66 -100%
2018 73 0.000020763 73 -100%
2019 81 0.000023337 5 76 -88%
2020 109 0.000032629 6 103 -89%
2021 82 0.000024203 82 -100%
2022 130 0.000038426 130 -100%
2023 113 0.000034127 5 108 -91%
2024 104 0.000031245 104 -100%

Explore other names

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