Meaning not yet researched.
Benson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,214 in 2025. Its best rank was #279 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99% of babies named Benson in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#279 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Benson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,214 boys in 2025. Peak: #279 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,214 (2025).
In 2025, 1,214 US boys were named Benson, making it the 279th most common boys’ name of the year, up 157 places from #436 in 2024. That is 485 more than the 729 boys named Benson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #279, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,214. For comparison, it was #472 in 2015 and #1,142 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Benson in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1887 with 9 babies. In all, 14,344 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,159 babies named Benson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,359 US boys were named Benson; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,214. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,407 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Benson ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #50 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Benzion, Bensen and Bensyn 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Benzion (1,084), Bensen (395), Bensyn (182).
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 Benson 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 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 19 | #50 | — |
| North Dakota | 16 | #66 | #162 |
| Utah | 56 | #89 | #73 |
| Vermont | 5 | #104 | — |
| Nebraska | 24 | #105 | — |
| Montana | 11 | #111 | — |
| Wisconsin | 53 | #114 | #610 |
| Indiana | 60 | #137 | #336 |
| Kansas | 27 | #139 | #311 |
| Maine | 9 | #139 | #220 |
| Minnesota | 39 | #168 | #587 |
| Oregon | 24 | #172 | #344 |
| Ohio | 74 | #178 | #314 |
| Missouri | 39 | #182 | #564 |
| West Virginia | 10 | #185 | #296 |
| Michigan | 56 | #186 | #367 |
| Iowa | 22 | #187 | #335 |
| Idaho | 13 | #198 | #182 |
| Kentucky | 25 | #221 | #382 |
| Washington | 35 | #229 | #366 |
| Pennsylvania | 52 | #235 | #379 |
| South Carolina | 21 | #265 | #531 |
| Connecticut | 12 | #268 | — |
| Illinois | 39 | #279 | #577 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #294 | #577 |
| Arizona | 24 | #322 | #438 |
| Nevada | 9 | #327 | #452 |
| Tennessee | 25 | #350 | #371 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #353 | #438 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #353 | #307 |
| Alabama | 15 | #360 | #718 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #363 | #407 |
| North Carolina | 30 | #373 | #627 |
| Colorado | 16 | #388 | #440 |
| Virginia | 20 | #389 | #626 |
| Florida | 48 | #404 | #721 |
| Maryland | 12 | #413 | #532 |
| Georgia | 25 | #441 | #917 |
| Texas | 75 | #452 | #944 |
| New York | 33 | #492 | #459 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #548 | — |
| California | 52 | #573 | #638 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,958 | 1,214 | #279 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,280 | 729 | #436 |
| 2023 | — | — | 454 | #617 |
| 2022 | — | — | 428 | #645 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,758 | 479 | #582 |
| 2020 | — | — | 514 | #552 |
| 2019 | — | — | 566 | #507 |
| 2018 | — | — | 621 | #468 |
| 2017 | — | — | 625 | #475 |
| 2016 | — | — | 729 | #428 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,861 | 631 | #472 |
| 2014 | — | — | 528 | #525 |
| 2013 | — | — | 447 | #574 |
| 2012 | — | — | 433 | #590 |
| 2011 | — | — | 314 | #724 |
| 2010 | — | — | 260 | #823 |
| 2009 | — | — | 193 | #1,014 |
| 2008 | — | — | 171 | #1,089 |
| 2007 | — | — | 174 | #1,070 |
| 2006 | — | — | 160 | #1,098 |
| 2005 | — | — | 134 | #1,191 |
| 2004 | — | — | 130 | #1,190 |
| 2003 | — | — | 102 | #1,343 |
| 2002 | — | — | 102 | #1,307 |
| 2001 | — | — | 76 | #1,573 |
| 2000 | — | — | 76 | #1,564 |
| 1999 | — | — | 66 | #1,625 |
| 1998 | — | — | 60 | #1,703 |
| 1997 | — | — | 50 | #1,862 |
| 1996 | — | — | 65 | #1,535 |
| 1995 | — | — | 60 | #1,559 |
| 1994 | — | — | 72 | #1,373 |
| 1993 | — | — | 72 | #1,341 |
| 1992 | — | — | 63 | #1,455 |
| 1991 | — | — | 58 | #1,502 |
| 1990 | — | — | 77 | #1,260 |
| 1989 | — | — | 57 | #1,453 |
| 1988 | — | — | 58 | #1,356 |
| 1987 | — | — | 38 | #1,736 |
| 1986 | — | — | 61 | #1,230 |
| 1985 | — | — | 59 | #1,242 |
| 1984 | — | — | 52 | #1,281 |
| 1983 | — | — | 47 | #1,362 |
| 1982 | — | — | 53 | #1,280 |
| 1981 | — | — | 53 | #1,260 |
| 1980 | — | — | 62 | #1,154 |
| 1979 | — | — | 79 | #1,001 |
| 1978 | — | — | 59 | #1,149 |
| 1977 | — | — | 65 | #1,071 |
| 1976 | — | — | 36 | #1,507 |
| 1975 | — | — | 40 | #1,381 |
| 1974 | — | — | 42 | #1,311 |
| 1973 | — | — | 51 | #1,148 |
| 1972 | — | — | 46 | #1,212 |
| 1971 | — | — | 42 | #1,292 |
| 1970 | — | — | 49 | #1,180 |
| 1969 | — | — | 64 | #959 |
| 1968 | — | — | 46 | #1,100 |
| 1967 | — | — | 50 | #1,030 |
| 1966 | — | — | 39 | #1,200 |
| 1965 | — | — | 30 | #1,408 |
| 1964 | — | — | 43 | #1,174 |
| 1963 | — | — | 47 | #1,122 |
| 1962 | — | — | 43 | #1,187 |
| 1961 | — | — | 45 | #1,182 |
| 1960 | — | — | 25 | #1,623 |
| 1959 | — | — | 39 | #1,249 |
| 1958 | — | — | 46 | #1,135 |
| 1957 | — | — | 60 | #982 |
| 1956 | — | — | 48 | #1,092 |
| 1955 | — | — | 39 | #1,200 |
| 1954 | — | — | 51 | #1,047 |
| 1953 | — | — | 46 | #1,076 |
| 1952 | — | — | 50 | #1,014 |
| 1951 | — | — | 42 | #1,111 |
| 1950 | — | — | 39 | #1,142 |
| 1949 | — | — | 46 | #1,030 |
| 1948 | — | — | 52 | #964 |
| 1947 | — | — | 44 | #1,093 |
| 1946 | — | — | 36 | #1,157 |
| 1945 | — | — | 34 | #1,124 |
| 1944 | — | — | 37 | #1,089 |
| 1943 | — | — | 38 | #1,108 |
| 1942 | — | — | 44 | #1,007 |
| 1941 | — | — | 34 | #1,130 |
| 1940 | — | — | 23 | #1,403 |
| 1939 | — | — | 23 | #1,395 |
| 1938 | — | — | 30 | #1,201 |
| 1937 | — | — | 37 | #1,057 |
| 1936 | — | — | 29 | #1,226 |
| 1935 | — | — | 29 | #1,249 |
| 1934 | — | — | 29 | #1,243 |
| 1933 | — | — | 17 | #1,714 |
| 1932 | — | — | 27 | #1,329 |
| 1931 | — | — | 39 | #1,078 |
| 1930 | — | — | 30 | #1,305 |
| 1929 | — | — | 42 | #1,058 |
| 1928 | — | — | 35 | #1,214 |
| 1927 | — | — | 35 | #1,229 |
| 1926 | — | — | 35 | #1,223 |
| 1925 | — | — | 45 | #1,022 |
| 1924 | — | — | 43 | #1,094 |
| 1923 | — | — | 36 | #1,199 |
| 1922 | — | — | 43 | #1,075 |
| 1921 | — | — | 39 | #1,140 |
| 1920 | — | — | 43 | #1,074 |
| 1919 | — | — | 28 | #1,354 |
| 1918 | — | — | 31 | #1,260 |
| 1917 | — | — | 47 | #934 |
| 1916 | — | — | 68 | #737 |
| 1915 | — | — | 39 | #1,017 |
| 1914 | — | — | 24 | #1,192 |
| 1913 | — | — | 15 | #1,376 |
| 1912 | — | — | 21 | #1,004 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,401 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,612 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,164 |
| 1908 | — | — | 9 | #955 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,251 |
| 1904 | — | — | 7 | #974 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,023 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,138 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,080 |
| 1895 | — | — | 6 | #990 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #968 |
| 1889 | — | — | 9 | #679 |
| 1888 | — | — | 5 | #1,050 |
| 1887 | — | — | 9 | #636 |
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).