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How popular is “Benton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Benton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Benton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Benton” 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
1880 10 0.000049632 10 -100%
1881 11 0.000057087 11 -100%
1882 11 0.000049654 11 -100%
1883 18 0.00008297 18 -100%
1884 18 0.000073934 18 -100%
1885 10 0.000041519 10 -100%
1886 9 0.00003525 9 -100%
1887 16 0.000064675 16 -100%
1888 9 0.000030053 9 -100%
1889 13 0.000044991 13 -100%
1890 14 0.00004645 14 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1892 9 0.000026916 9 -100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 -100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 -100%
1896 19 0.000053149 19 -100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1900 13 0.000028872 13 -100%
1901 15 0.000043376 15 -100%
1902 10 0.000025858 10 -100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1905 13 0.000030666 13 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 -100%
1907 10 0.000021487 10 -100%
1908 15 0.000030697 15 -100%
1909 14 0.000027385 14 -100%
1910 18 0.000030472 18 -100%
1911 23 0.000035699 23 -100%
1912 40 0.000040483 40 -100%
1913 38 0.000033418 38 -100%
1914 58 0.000040951 58 -100%
1915 61 0.000033289 61 -100%
1916 77 0.000039805 77 -100%
1917 77 0.000038371 77 -100%
1918 76 0.000035005 76 -100%
1919 74 0.000035067 74 -100%
1920 94 0.000041544 94 -100%
1921 66 0.000028272 66 -100%
1922 79 0.000034511 79 -100%
1923 78 0.000033877 78 -100%
1924 71 0.000029812 71 -100%
1925 67 0.000028715 67 -100%
1926 87 0.000037894 87 -100%
1927 79 0.000034061 79 -100%
1928 78 0.000034499 78 -100%
1929 71 0.000032388 71 -100%
1930 77 0.000034633 77 -100%
1931 62 0.000029462 62 -100%
1932 57 0.000026998 57 -100%
1933 56 0.000028008 56 -100%
1934 52 0.000025038 52 -100%
1935 59 0.000028231 59 -100%
1936 65 0.000031286 65 -100%
1937 58 0.000027221 58 -100%
1938 55 0.000024858 55 -100%
1939 60 0.00002723 60 -100%
1940 58 0.000025188 58 -100%
1941 62 0.000025447 62 -100%
1942 70 0.000025624 70 -100%
1943 61 0.000021612 61 -100%
1944 70 0.000026022 70 -100%
1945 61 0.000022994 61 -100%
1946 63 0.000019716 63 -100%
1947 61 0.000016934 61 -100%
1948 58 0.000016799 58 -100%
1949 63 0.000018079 63 -100%
1950 57 0.00001627 57 -100%
1951 53 0.000014388 53 -100%
1952 54 0.000014218 54 -100%
1953 49 0.000012715 49 -100%
1954 60 0.000015073 60 -100%
1955 65 0.000016189 65 -100%
1956 50 0.000012127 50 -100%
1957 69 0.00001642 69 -100%
1958 71 0.000017175 71 -100%
1959 65 0.000015633 65 -100%
1960 63 0.000015167 63 -100%
1961 58 0.000014002 58 -100%
1962 70 0.000017347 70 -100%
1963 69 0.000017432 69 -100%
1964 61 0.000015691 61 -100%
1965 48 0.00001324 48 -100%
1966 60 0.000017263 60 -100%
1967 57 0.00001679 57 -100%
1968 56 0.000016576 56 -100%
1969 48 0.000013812 48 -100%
1970 62 0.000017191 62 -100%
1971 65 0.000018937 65 -100%
1972 51 0.000016227 51 -100%
1973 36 0.000011933 36 -100%
1974 44 0.000014474 44 -100%
1975 46 0.000015235 46 -100%
1976 61 0.000020103 61 -100%
1977 47 0.000014796 47 -100%
1978 43 0.000013548 43 -100%
1979 61 0.000018335 61 -100%
1980 56 0.000016258 56 -100%
1981 61 0.000017633 61 -100%
1982 60 0.000017104 60 -100%
1983 68 0.000019634 68 -100%
1984 66 0.000018918 66 -100%
1985 78 0.000021854 78 -100%
1986 78 0.000021928 78 -100%
1987 86 0.000023852 86 -100%
1988 82 0.000022192 82 -100%
1989 83 0.00002159 83 -100%
1990 85 0.000021505 85 -100%
1991 85 0.000021821 85 -100%
1992 87 0.000022649 87 -100%
1993 70 0.000018566 70 -100%
1994 90 0.000024209 90 -100%
1995 108 0.000029491 108 -100%
1996 105 0.000028789 105 -100%
1997 99 0.000027305 99 -100%
1998 109 0.000029634 109 -100%
1999 114 0.000030862 114 -100%
2000 113 0.000029895 113 -100%
2001 101 0.000026981 101 -100%
2002 93 0.000024878 93 -100%
2003 99 0.000026037 99 -100%
2004 103 0.000026957 103 -100%
2005 103 0.000026789 103 -100%
2006 110 0.000027805 110 -100%
2007 138 0.00003452 138 -100%
2008 110 0.000027985 110 -100%
2009 111 0.000029056 111 -100%
2010 165 0.000044646 165 -100%
2011 212 0.000057958 212 -100%
2012 240 0.000065621 240 -100%
2013 225 0.000061717 225 -100%
2014 223 0.000060167 223 -100%
2015 254 0.000068632 254 -100%
2016 277 0.000075504 277 -100%
2017 234 0.000065433 234 -100%
2018 212 0.000060298 6 206 -94%
2019 187 0.000053876 187 -100%
2020 175 0.000052386 175 -100%
2021 157 0.000046341 157 -100%
2022 155 0.000045815 155 -100%
2023 145 0.000043791 145 -100%
2024 149 0.000044765 149 -100%

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