Benard
Recorded 1890–2022 · United States
Benard was most popular in 1956, when 38 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,824 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,644 people named Benard.
Benard over time
How old is the name Benard?
Benard first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1890, which makes it about 135 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 100 of the 136 years since.
How many people are named Benard?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,644 American births named Benard between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 791 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Benard in 2025?
Benard was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Benard getting more or less popular?
Benard is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 5 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Benard a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Benard is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 1,644 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Benard?
Roughly 791 Americans named Benard are alive today — 48% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 61 years old, and half are between 45 and 72.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Benard is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org