Meaning not yet researched.
Benito: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 226 in 2025. Its best rank was #513 in 1929.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #513 in 1929; #1,002 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Benito in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,002 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1929, at #513.
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Benito: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 226 boys in 2025. Peak: #513 in 1929 · most boys in one year: 226 (2025).
In 2025, 226 US boys were named Benito, making it the 1,002nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 191 places from #1,193 in 2024. That is 54 more than the 172 boys named Benito in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #513, reached in 1929. The most boys given the name in a single year was 226, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,743 in 2015 and #582 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Benito in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 14,804 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,812 babies named Benito.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,441 US boys were named Benito; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 226. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,558 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Benito ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #369 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ben (85,816 babies since 1880), Bennett (74,854 babies since 1880), Benedict (10,475 babies since 1880) and Bennet (2,176 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bennito are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bennito (7).
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 Benito 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 5 | #369 | — |
| California | 68 | #466 | #878 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #558 | — |
| Illinois | 14 | #640 | — |
| Texas | 46 | #650 | #975 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #690 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #767 | #798 |
| Washington | 7 | #814 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #858 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #937 | #899 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,256 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,367 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,432 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 226 | #1,002 |
| 2024 | — | — | 172 | #1,193 |
| 2023 | — | — | 201 | #1,074 |
| 2022 | — | — | 191 | #1,114 |
| 2021 | — | — | 176 | #1,143 |
| 2020 | — | — | 101 | #1,602 |
| 2019 | — | — | 105 | #1,582 |
| 2018 | — | — | 86 | #1,778 |
| 2017 | — | — | 104 | #1,568 |
| 2016 | — | — | 79 | #1,877 |
| 2015 | — | — | 88 | #1,743 |
| 2014 | — | — | 92 | #1,672 |
| 2013 | — | — | 118 | #1,413 |
| 2012 | — | — | 106 | #1,514 |
| 2011 | — | — | 125 | #1,351 |
| 2010 | — | — | 108 | #1,503 |
| 2009 | — | — | 119 | #1,414 |
| 2008 | — | — | 146 | #1,205 |
| 2007 | — | — | 165 | #1,103 |
| 2006 | — | — | 182 | #1,008 |
| 2005 | — | — | 152 | #1,082 |
| 2004 | — | — | 156 | #1,043 |
| 2003 | — | — | 161 | #983 |
| 2002 | — | — | 147 | #1,045 |
| 2001 | — | — | 152 | #1,000 |
| 2000 | — | — | 174 | #895 |
| 1999 | — | — | 177 | #855 |
| 1998 | — | — | 166 | #873 |
| 1997 | — | — | 176 | #824 |
| 1996 | — | — | 198 | #755 |
| 1995 | — | — | 190 | #779 |
| 1994 | — | — | 193 | #757 |
| 1993 | — | — | 176 | #796 |
| 1992 | — | — | 196 | #739 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,389 | 171 | #784 |
| 1990 | — | — | 164 | #794 |
| 1989 | — | — | 148 | #814 |
| 1988 | — | — | 139 | #805 |
| 1987 | — | — | 152 | #740 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,079 | 167 | #701 |
| 1985 | — | — | 141 | #749 |
| 1984 | — | — | 157 | #696 |
| 1983 | — | — | 156 | #687 |
| 1982 | — | — | 175 | #658 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,230 | 167 | #664 |
| 1980 | — | — | 179 | #648 |
| 1979 | — | — | 178 | #639 |
| 1978 | — | — | 154 | #673 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,779 | 171 | #648 |
| 1976 | — | — | 174 | #621 |
| 1975 | — | — | 151 | #672 |
| 1974 | — | — | 166 | #624 |
| 1973 | — | — | 145 | #661 |
| 1972 | — | — | 143 | #671 |
| 1971 | — | — | 156 | #658 |
| 1970 | — | — | 164 | #634 |
| 1969 | — | — | 148 | #648 |
| 1968 | — | — | 159 | #603 |
| 1967 | — | — | 130 | #653 |
| 1966 | — | — | 120 | #678 |
| 1965 | — | — | 147 | #625 |
| 1964 | — | — | 170 | #603 |
| 1963 | — | — | 139 | #661 |
| 1962 | — | — | 130 | #679 |
| 1961 | — | — | 110 | #735 |
| 1960 | — | — | 130 | #688 |
| 1959 | — | — | 102 | #752 |
| 1958 | — | — | 147 | #633 |
| 1957 | — | — | 131 | #664 |
| 1956 | — | — | 131 | #665 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,897 | 134 | #644 |
| 1954 | — | — | 139 | #627 |
| 1953 | — | — | 147 | #593 |
| 1952 | — | — | 125 | #628 |
| 1951 | — | — | 125 | #628 |
| 1950 | — | — | 136 | #582 |
| 1949 | — | — | 148 | #550 |
| 1948 | — | — | 116 | #630 |
| 1947 | — | — | 121 | #618 |
| 1946 | — | — | 124 | #577 |
| 1945 | — | — | 98 | #610 |
| 1944 | — | — | 92 | #643 |
| 1943 | — | — | 91 | #673 |
| 1942 | — | — | 79 | #722 |
| 1941 | — | — | 96 | #614 |
| 1940 | — | — | 91 | #622 |
| 1939 | — | — | 82 | #656 |
| 1938 | — | — | 75 | #700 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,309 | 82 | #656 |
| 1936 | — | — | 94 | #597 |
| 1935 | — | — | 96 | #589 |
| 1934 | — | — | 103 | #582 |
| 1933 | — | — | 89 | #614 |
| 1932 | — | — | 81 | #677 |
| 1931 | — | — | 105 | #574 |
| 1930 | — | — | 102 | #606 |
| 1929 | — | — | 131 | #513 |
| 1928 | — | — | 117 | #567 |
| 1927 | — | — | 94 | #653 |
| 1926 | — | — | 71 | #768 |
| 1925 | — | — | 102 | #621 |
| 1924 | — | — | 121 | #579 |
| 1923 | — | — | 87 | #692 |
| 1922 | — | — | 87 | #698 |
| 1921 | — | — | 75 | #772 |
| 1920 | — | — | 84 | #705 |
| 1919 | — | — | 63 | #823 |
| 1918 | — | — | 58 | #870 |
| 1917 | — | — | 66 | #774 |
| 1916 | — | — | 44 | #964 |
| 1915 | — | — | 34 | #1,104 |
| 1914 | — | — | 30 | #1,024 |
| 1913 | — | — | 12 | #1,590 |
| 1912 | — | — | 24 | #920 |
| 1911 | — | — | 18 | #760 |
| 1910 | — | — | 23 | #600 |
| 1909 | — | — | 13 | #808 |
| 1908 | — | — | 11 | #830 |
| 1907 | — | — | 13 | #741 |
| 1906 | — | — | 16 | #592 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,107 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,224 |
| 1903 | — | — | 10 | #739 |
| 1901 | — | — | 9 | #734 |
| 1900 | — | — | 10 | #844 |
| 1899 | — | — | 7 | #864 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,137 |
| 1896 | — | — | 6 | #990 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #967 |
| 1891 | — | — | 6 | #851 |
| 1890 | — | — | 10 | #634 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #941 |
| 1880 | — | — | 7 | #752 |
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).