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Benjie

The boy's name Benjie has been in the national records since 1935, with 953 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 750 Benjies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Benjie boys named Benjie

By the numbers

Total US births
953
Estimated living today
750
Median age today
60
Peak year
1962
Best rank
1,082nd
Rank in 2025
12,008th
First recorded
1935
Girls / boys
31 / 922

How old the living Benjies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 953 babies given the name since 1935, about 750 are alive — 79 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 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 Benjie is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Benjie is most concentrated in Georgia (9.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1962

The most popular boys’ names the year Benjie peaked:

All the names of 1962

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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.