Benito
Benito is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 170 births. Its best rank was 513th, in 1929.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1700.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2023201 births
- Best rank
- #513in 1929
- Since 1880
- 14,546people given the name
The story in the numbers
14,546 boys have been named Benito in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2023, with 201 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1977, and the 1990s alone account for 12%. It has spent 104 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Benito | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12 | |
| 1890s | 40 | |
| 1900s | 93 | |
| 1910s | 372 | |
| 1920s | 969 | |
| 1930s | 909 | |
| 1940s | 1,056 | |
| 1950s | 1,318 | |
| 1960s | 1,383 | |
| 1970s | 1,602 | |
| 1980s | 1,581 | |
| 1990s | 1,807 | |
| 2000s | 1,554 | |
| 2010s | 1,011 | |
| 2020s | 839 |
In 2023, its biggest year
Benito was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2023 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2023.
Names that rose and fell with Benito
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alfonsopeak 1991
- Federicopeak 1976
- Ramonpeak 1991
- Willypeak 1993
- Ignaciopeak 2006
- Leopoldopeak 1980
- Jacintopeak 2024
- Reyespeak 1999
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.