Benji
Benji is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 104 births. Its best rank was 623rd, in 1975.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1040.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1975168 births
- Best rank
- #623in 1975
- Since 1952
- 2,205people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,142 boys have been named Benji in the United States since 1952, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 168 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 1970s alone account for 26%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 63 girls have also been given it, 2.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1975, its biggest year
Benji was the 623rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1975 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, James and David. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Benji
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Walipeak 2016
- Conanpeak 2023
- Edrickpeak 2018
- Bjornpeak 2024
- Bluepeak 2024
- Uripeak 2023
- Rezapeak 2023
- Rorypeak 2024
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.