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How popular is “Benny” in the USA?

Number of people named “Benny” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Benny” by birth year

This chart shows how “Benny” 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
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 -100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1886 13 0.000050917 13 -100%
1887 10 0.000040422 10 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1890 7 0.000023225 7 -100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 -100%
1892 9 0.000026916 9 -100%
1893 9 0.000027673 9 -100%
1894 9 0.000026573 9 -100%
1895 10 0.000028488 10 -100%
1896 16 0.000044757 16 -100%
1897 12 0.000034586 12 -100%
1898 18 0.000047188 18 -100%
1899 13 0.000038322 13 -100%
1900 31 0.000068849 31 -100%
1901 17 0.00004916 17 -100%
1902 13 0.000033615 13 -100%
1903 17 0.000044596 17 -100%
1904 18 0.000044611 18 -100%
1905 27 0.000063691 27 -100%
1906 31 0.000072354 31 -100%
1907 41 0.000088098 41 -100%
1908 37 0.000075719 37 -100%
1909 31 0.000060639 31 -100%
1910 47 0.000079565 47 -100%
1911 50 0.000077606 50 -100%
1912 87 0.000088051 87 -100%
1913 122 0.00010729 122 -100%
1914 144 0.00010167 144 -100%
1915 210 0.000114602 210 -100%
1916 196 0.000101323 196 -100%
1917 231 0.000115111 8 223 -93%
1918 282 0.000129887 282 -100%
1919 282 0.000133634 7 275 -95%
1920 279 0.000123307 7 272 -95%
1921 321 0.000137502 5 316 -97%
1922 317 0.000138479 18 299 -89%
1923 354 0.000153747 8 346 -95%
1924 427 0.00017929 12 415 -94%
1925 408 0.000174859 14 394 -93%
1926 410 0.000178579 11 399 -95%
1927 440 0.000189708 11 429 -95%
1928 473 0.000209205 13 460 -95%
1929 498 0.000227173 15 483 -94%
1930 546 0.000245582 13 533 -95%
1931 612 0.000290821 11 601 -96%
1932 608 0.000287975 15 593 -95%
1933 604 0.000302084 9 595 -97%
1934 696 0.000335128 12 684 -97%
1935 690 0.000330159 12 678 -97%
1936 744 0.000358109 12 732 -97%
1937 778 0.000365143 18 760 -95%
1938 838 0.000378744 15 823 -96%
1939 870 0.000394837 6 864 -99%
1940 824 0.000357843 10 814 -98%
1941 843 0.000345999 8 835 -98%
1942 885 0.00032396 8 877 -98%
1943 972 0.000344368 12 960 -98%
1944 908 0.000337537 11 897 -98%
1945 832 0.000313618 11 821 -97%
1946 1015 0.000317653 12 1003 -98%
1947 1070 0.000297031 9 1061 -98%
1948 1074 0.000311077 9 1065 -98%
1949 977 0.000280362 8 969 -98%
1950 882 0.000251758 7 875 -98%
1951 933 0.000253275 7 926 -98%
1952 909 0.000239336 13 896 -97%
1953 905 0.000234843 8 897 -98%
1954 924 0.00023212 10 914 -98%
1955 836 0.000208215 14 822 -97%
1956 885 0.000214648 885 -100%
1957 881 0.000209655 8 873 -98%
1958 879 0.000212632 6 873 -99%
1959 857 0.000206109 12 845 -97%
1960 795 0.00019139 11 784 -97%
1961 727 0.000175506 8 719 -98%
1962 757 0.000187591 5 752 -99%
1963 644 0.0001627 7 637 -98%
1964 600 0.000154337 8 592 -97%
1965 522 0.000143982 8 514 -97%
1966 458 0.000131774 458 -100%
1967 405 0.000119297 7 398 -97%
1968 412 0.000121951 8 404 -96%
1969 404 0.000116248 7 397 -97%
1970 389 0.00010786 5 384 -97%
1971 370 0.000107798 370 -100%
1972 355 0.00011295 7 348 -96%
1973 311 0.000103086 8 303 -95%
1974 344 0.000113158 344 -100%
1975 329 0.000108962 5 324 -97%
1976 291 0.000095904 5 286 -97%
1977 300 0.000094444 300 -100%
1978 324 0.000102084 6 318 -96%
1979 339 0.000101894 339 -100%
1980 303 0.000087966 6 297 -96%
1981 292 0.000084408 292 -100%
1982 288 0.000082099 288 -100%
1983 219 0.000063234 5 214 -95%
1984 211 0.00006048 211 -100%
1985 213 0.000059679 213 -100%
1986 212 0.000059599 212 -100%
1987 211 0.00005852 211 -100%
1988 192 0.000051962 192 -100%
1989 219 0.000056965 8 211 -93%
1990 203 0.00005136 203 -100%
1991 201 0.000051601 201 -100%
1992 204 0.000053107 204 -100%
1993 207 0.000054903 207 -100%
1994 156 0.000041962 156 -100%
1995 182 0.000049698 182 -100%
1996 179 0.000049079 179 -100%
1997 166 0.000045784 166 -100%
1998 172 0.000046762 172 -100%
1999 158 0.000042774 158 -100%
2000 192 0.000050795 192 -100%
2001 165 0.000044078 165 -100%
2002 193 0.000051628 193 -100%
2003 161 0.000042343 161 -100%
2004 181 0.000047371 181 -100%
2005 167 0.000043435 167 -100%
2006 193 0.000048784 193 -100%
2007 193 0.000048278 193 -100%
2008 155 0.000039434 155 -100%
2009 149 0.000039003 149 -100%
2010 153 0.000041399 153 -100%
2011 149 0.000040735 149 -100%
2012 134 0.000036638 134 -100%
2013 142 0.00003895 142 -100%
2014 145 0.000039122 5 140 -93%
2015 123 0.000033235 5 118 -92%
2016 122 0.000033254 122 -100%
2017 131 0.000036631 131 -100%
2018 148 0.000042095 148 -100%
2019 161 0.000046385 161 -100%
2020 175 0.000052386 6 169 -93%
2021 222 0.000065526 6 216 -95%
2022 222 0.00006562 11 211 -90%
2023 218 0.000065837 9 209 -92%
2024 276 0.00008292 11 265 -92%

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