Benigno
About 1,608 American babies have been named Benigno since 1913, most of them around 1990. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,200 Benignos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Benigno
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,608
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 2,128th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1913
How old the living Benignos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,608 babies given the name since 1913, about 1,200 are alive — 74 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Benignos
- Benigno Aquino III (1960–2021)president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016
- Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini (1876–1958)Catholic cardinal
- Benigno Ferreira (1846–1920)Paraguayan lawyer and politician
- Benigno Aquino, Sr. (1894–1947)Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1943 to 1944
- Benigno Gutiérrez (born 1925)Bolivian footballer
- Benigno Zaccagnini (1912–1989)Italian politician
- Benigno Fitial (born 1945)seventh governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
People named Benigno with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Benigno is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Benigno is most concentrated in Texas (8.0×), California (2.7×), New York (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular boys’ names the year Benigno peaked:
Benigno elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Benigno | 15 | 1,792nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Benigno lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 4,371 men called Benigno were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ourense | Benigno | 211 | 1.439 | 111 |
| Lugo | Benigno | 194 | 1.226 | 112 |
| Asturias | Benigno | 489 | 1.009 | 142 |
| Coruña, A | Benigno | 512 | 0.940 | 136 |
| Pontevedra | Benigno | 358 | 0.783 | 169 |
| León | Benigno | 163 | 0.747 | 178 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Benigno against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.