Meaning not yet researched.
Benaiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 176 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,170 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 97% of babies named Benaiah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,170 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Benaiah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 176 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,170 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 176 (2025).
In 2025, 176 US boys were named Benaiah, making it the 1,170th most common boys’ name of the year, up 73 places from #1,243 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 159 boys named Benaiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,170, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 176. For comparison, it was #1,416 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Benaiah in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 7 babies. In all, 2,421 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,076 babies named Benaiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,424 US boys were named Benaiah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 176. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,705 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Benaiah ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #501 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Benayah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Benayah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Benaiah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 6 | #501 | — |
| Tennessee | 13 | #555 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #676 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #691 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #713 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #777 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,043 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,128 | — |
| Texas | 19 | #1,138 | #1,551 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,373 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,495 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,515 | #1,776 |
| New York | 5 | #1,796 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,305 | 176 | #1,170 |
| 2024 | — | — | 159 | #1,243 |
| 2023 | — | — | 120 | #1,490 |
| 2022 | — | — | 133 | #1,396 |
| 2021 | — | — | 166 | #1,182 |
| 2020 | — | — | 122 | #1,415 |
| 2019 | — | — | 158 | #1,210 |
| 2018 | — | — | 134 | #1,343 |
| 2017 | — | — | 128 | #1,378 |
| 2016 | — | — | 128 | #1,382 |
| 2015 | — | — | 121 | #1,416 |
| 2014 | — | — | 97 | #1,611 |
| 2013 | — | — | 87 | #1,697 |
| 2012 | — | — | 95 | #1,626 |
| 2011 | — | — | 67 | #2,019 |
| 2010 | — | — | 61 | #2,175 |
| 2009 | — | — | 47 | #2,624 |
| 2008 | — | — | 41 | #2,884 |
| 2007 | — | — | 40 | #2,923 |
| 2006 | — | — | 35 | #3,094 |
| 2005 | — | — | 26 | #3,629 |
| 2004 | — | — | 16 | #5,034 |
| 2003 | — | — | 17 | #4,632 |
| 2002 | — | — | 16 | #4,725 |
| 2001 | — | — | 13 | #5,416 |
| 2000 | — | — | 13 | #5,318 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,177 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #4,900 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,266 |
| 1996 | — | — | 17 | #3,842 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,466 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,492 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,728 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #6,731 |
| 1991 | — | — | 12 | #4,508 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,473 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #4,846 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,507 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,013 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #6,819 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #5,855 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,165 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,063 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,002 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,421 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,126 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #5,931 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,475 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).