Meaning not yet researched.
Benji: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 142 in 2025. Its best rank was #623 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #623 in 1975; #1,341 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Benji in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,341 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #623.
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Benji: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 142 boys in 2025. Peak: #623 in 1975 · most boys in one year: 168 (1975).
In 2025, 142 US boys were named Benji, making it the 1,341st most common boys’ name of the year, up 281 places from #1,622 in 2024. That is 37 more than the 105 boys named Benji in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #623, reached in 1975. That year also had the most boys given the name: 168. For comparison, it was #2,359 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Benji in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 7 babies. In all, 2,348 US babies have been given the name, 2.7% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 681 babies named Benji.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 934 US boys were named Benji; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 142. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,029 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Benji ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #557 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Benjie and Benjy are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Benjie (953), Benjy (362).
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 Benji in the open dataset we use.
Benji is listed as a nickname for Ben.
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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 8 | #557 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #756 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #856 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #915 | — |
| California | 23 | #961 | #1,556 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,159 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,310 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,565 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #1,873 | #1,712 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 142 | #1,341 |
| 2024 | — | — | 105 | #1,622 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,569 | 108 | #1,610 |
| 2022 | — | — | 130 | #1,414 |
| 2021 | — | — | 82 | #1,871 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,729 | 103 | #1,579 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,914 | 76 | #1,940 |
| 2018 | — | — | 73 | #1,994 |
| 2017 | — | — | 66 | #2,093 |
| 2016 | — | — | 49 | #2,559 |
| 2015 | — | — | 55 | #2,359 |
| 2014 | — | — | 44 | #2,713 |
| 2013 | — | — | 29 | #3,590 |
| 2012 | — | — | 19 | #4,882 |
| 2011 | — | — | 19 | #4,838 |
| 2010 | — | — | 24 | #4,114 |
| 2009 | — | — | 19 | #4,943 |
| 2008 | — | — | 14 | #6,106 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,230 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | #5,333 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,065 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,218 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,306 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,764 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,605 |
| 2000 | — | — | 16 | #4,602 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,071 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,371 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,232 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,559 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,467 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #5,911 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,392 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,901 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,559 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,438 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,036 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,726 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,015 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,391 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,621 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #2,970 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #2,932 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #2,987 |
| 1981 | — | — | 33 | #1,729 |
| 1980 | — | — | 40 | #1,524 |
| 1979 | — | — | 42 | #1,437 |
| 1978 | — | — | 64 | #1,087 |
| 1977 | — | — | 82 | #937 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,256 | 96 | #850 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,546 | 168 | #623 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,780 | 53 | #1,124 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,513 | 17 | #2,320 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,398 | 21 | #1,977 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,437 | 11 | #2,990 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,747 |
| 1969 | — | — | 16 | #2,138 |
| 1968 | — | — | 18 | #1,898 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,791 |
| 1966 | — | — | 14 | #2,141 |
| 1965 | — | — | 17 | #1,921 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,849 | 16 | #2,045 |
| 1963 | — | — | 18 | #1,904 |
| 1962 | — | — | 17 | #1,972 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,724 |
| 1960 | — | — | 15 | #2,134 |
| 1959 | — | — | 15 | #2,119 |
| 1958 | — | — | 21 | #1,731 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,596 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,357 | 10 | #2,641 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #3,930 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,123 |
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).