Benito
Benito reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 1,002, and has been recorded 14,804 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,002nd. About 11,000 Benitos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Benito boys named Benito
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 14,804
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 1,002nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,002nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 31 / 14,773
How old the living Benitos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 14,804 babies given the name since 1880, about 11,000 are alive — 74 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 1,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish and Italian
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Benitos
- Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945
- Benito Juárez (1806–1872)President of Mexico from 1858 to 1872
- Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920)Spanish realist novelist
- Benito Floro (born 1952)Spanish association football player and manager
- Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa (born 1947)Italian politician
- Benito Jerónimo Feijoo (1677–1764)Spanish monk and scholar
- Benito Lorenzi (1925–2007)Italian footballer
- Benito Raman (born 1994)Belgian footballer
People named Benito with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Benito is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Benito is most concentrated in New Mexico (9.1×), Texas (7.1×), California (2.2×), Arizona (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Benito peaked:
Benito elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Benito | 649 | — |
| France boys | Benito | 500 | 553rd |
| England and Wales boys | Benito | 159 | 938th |
| Belgium boys | Benito | 37 | 903rd |
| Poland boys | Benito | 2 birth registrations | 732nd |
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.
Benito: rank by region
In 2009, Benito was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Benito | 857 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Benito among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Benito | 7 | 20 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Benito lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 16,493 men called Benito 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 | Benito | 687 | 4.685 | 39 |
| Pontevedra | Benito | 1,159 | 2.534 | 76 |
| Huelva | Benito | 404 | 1.511 | 98 |
| Cáceres | Benito | 286 | 1.488 | 114 |
| Zamora | Benito | 121 | 1.476 | 108 |
| Badajoz | Benito | 480 | 1.463 | 106 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Benito against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.