Benjaman
Recorded 1880–2020 · United States
Benjaman was most popular in 1977, when 44 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,359 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,024 people named Benjaman.
Benjaman over time
How old is the name Benjaman?
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Benjaman is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 128 of the 146 years since.
How many people are named Benjaman?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,024 American births named Benjaman 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 956 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Benjaman in 2025?
Benjaman 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 Benjaman getting more or less popular?
Benjaman is out of use. It averaged 6 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
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 Benjaman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Benjaman is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 2,024 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 Benjaman?
Roughly 956 Americans named Benjaman are alive today — 47% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 46 years old, and half are between 35 and 60.
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.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org