Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Benjy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Benjy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Benjy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Benjy” 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
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 -100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 -100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 -100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 -100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 -100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 -100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 -100%
1963 20 0.000005053 20 -100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 -100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1971 16 0.000004662 16 -100%
1972 17 0.000005409 17 -100%
1973 16 0.000005303 16 -100%
1974 29 0.000009539 29 -100%
1975 23 0.000007617 23 -100%
1976 22 0.00000725 22 -100%
1977 10 0.000003148 10 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 -100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 -100%

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