Meaning not yet researched.
Benton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 104 in 2025. Its best rank was #413 in 1883.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #413 in 1883; #1,623 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Benton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,623 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1883, at #413.
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Benton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 104 boys in 2025. Peak: #413 in 1883 · most boys in one year: 278 (2016).
In 2025, 104 US boys were named Benton, making it the 1,623rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 319 places from #1,304 in 2024. That is 46 fewer than the 150 boys named Benton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #413, reached in 1883. The most boys given the name in a single year was 278, in 2016. For comparison, it was #874 in 2015 and #905 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Benton in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 10 babies. In all, 10,421 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,230 babies named Benton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,791 US boys were named Benton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 278. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,424 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Benton ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #637 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Bentyn and Benten 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: Bentyn (40), Benten (18).
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 Benton 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 6 | #637 | #498 |
| Alabama | 6 | #690 | #627 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #709 | #641 |
| Washington | 6 | #916 | #640 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #939 | #479 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,257 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,490 | #1,069 |
| California | 5 | #2,523 | #1,217 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 104 | #1,623 |
| 2024 | — | — | 150 | #1,304 |
| 2023 | — | — | 145 | #1,315 |
| 2022 | — | — | 155 | #1,256 |
| 2021 | — | — | 157 | #1,227 |
| 2020 | — | — | 175 | #1,125 |
| 2019 | — | — | 187 | #1,076 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,067 | 206 | #1,005 |
| 2017 | — | — | 234 | #912 |
| 2016 | — | — | 278 | #821 |
| 2015 | — | — | 254 | #874 |
| 2014 | — | — | 223 | #947 |
| 2013 | — | — | 225 | #917 |
| 2012 | — | — | 240 | #877 |
| 2011 | — | — | 212 | #937 |
| 2010 | — | — | 165 | #1,127 |
| 2009 | — | — | 111 | #1,497 |
| 2008 | — | — | 110 | #1,483 |
| 2007 | — | — | 138 | #1,273 |
| 2006 | — | — | 110 | #1,417 |
| 2005 | — | — | 103 | #1,431 |
| 2004 | — | — | 103 | #1,384 |
| 2003 | — | — | 99 | #1,365 |
| 2002 | — | — | 93 | #1,408 |
| 2001 | — | — | 101 | #1,299 |
| 2000 | — | — | 113 | #1,197 |
| 1999 | — | — | 114 | #1,151 |
| 1998 | — | — | 109 | #1,148 |
| 1997 | — | — | 99 | #1,198 |
| 1996 | — | — | 105 | #1,128 |
| 1995 | — | — | 108 | #1,090 |
| 1994 | — | — | 90 | #1,212 |
| 1993 | — | — | 70 | #1,380 |
| 1992 | — | — | 87 | #1,197 |
| 1991 | — | — | 85 | #1,203 |
| 1990 | — | — | 85 | #1,182 |
| 1989 | — | — | 83 | #1,162 |
| 1988 | — | — | 82 | #1,099 |
| 1987 | — | — | 86 | #1,024 |
| 1986 | — | — | 78 | #1,055 |
| 1985 | — | — | 78 | #1,043 |
| 1984 | — | — | 66 | #1,112 |
| 1983 | — | — | 68 | #1,078 |
| 1982 | — | — | 60 | #1,195 |
| 1981 | — | — | 61 | #1,178 |
| 1980 | — | — | 55 | #1,240 |
| 1979 | — | — | 61 | #1,154 |
| 1978 | — | — | 43 | #1,412 |
| 1977 | — | — | 47 | #1,315 |
| 1976 | — | — | 61 | #1,068 |
| 1975 | — | — | 46 | #1,258 |
| 1974 | — | — | 44 | #1,273 |
| 1973 | — | — | 36 | #1,402 |
| 1972 | — | — | 51 | #1,139 |
| 1971 | — | — | 65 | #1,008 |
| 1970 | — | — | 62 | #1,031 |
| 1969 | — | — | 48 | #1,125 |
| 1968 | — | — | 56 | #986 |
| 1967 | — | — | 57 | #955 |
| 1966 | — | — | 60 | #939 |
| 1965 | — | — | 48 | #1,067 |
| 1964 | — | — | 61 | #973 |
| 1963 | — | — | 69 | #899 |
| 1962 | — | — | 70 | #908 |
| 1961 | — | — | 58 | #1,028 |
| 1960 | — | — | 63 | #953 |
| 1959 | — | — | 65 | #952 |
| 1958 | — | — | 71 | #893 |
| 1957 | — | — | 69 | #913 |
| 1956 | — | — | 50 | #1,072 |
| 1955 | — | — | 65 | #922 |
| 1954 | — | — | 60 | #952 |
| 1953 | — | — | 49 | #1,033 |
| 1952 | — | — | 54 | #970 |
| 1951 | — | — | 53 | #966 |
| 1950 | — | — | 57 | #905 |
| 1949 | — | — | 63 | #867 |
| 1948 | — | — | 58 | #904 |
| 1947 | — | — | 61 | #889 |
| 1946 | — | — | 63 | #827 |
| 1945 | — | — | 61 | #791 |
| 1944 | — | — | 70 | #741 |
| 1943 | — | — | 61 | #847 |
| 1942 | — | — | 70 | #770 |
| 1941 | — | — | 62 | #798 |
| 1940 | — | — | 58 | #818 |
| 1939 | — | — | 60 | #784 |
| 1938 | — | — | 55 | #835 |
| 1937 | — | — | 58 | #807 |
| 1936 | — | — | 65 | #748 |
| 1935 | — | — | 59 | #804 |
| 1934 | — | — | 52 | #870 |
| 1933 | — | — | 56 | #825 |
| 1932 | — | — | 57 | #843 |
| 1931 | — | — | 62 | #795 |
| 1930 | — | — | 77 | #711 |
| 1929 | — | — | 71 | #752 |
| 1928 | — | — | 78 | #723 |
| 1927 | — | — | 79 | #734 |
| 1926 | — | — | 87 | #679 |
| 1925 | — | — | 67 | #810 |
| 1924 | — | — | 71 | #801 |
| 1923 | — | — | 78 | #737 |
| 1922 | — | — | 79 | #742 |
| 1921 | — | — | 66 | #849 |
| 1920 | — | — | 94 | #653 |
| 1919 | — | — | 74 | #747 |
| 1918 | — | — | 76 | #736 |
| 1917 | — | — | 77 | #687 |
| 1916 | — | — | 77 | #677 |
| 1915 | — | — | 61 | #767 |
| 1914 | — | — | 58 | #668 |
| 1913 | — | — | 38 | #761 |
| 1912 | — | — | 40 | #670 |
| 1911 | — | — | 23 | #647 |
| 1910 | — | — | 18 | #711 |
| 1909 | — | — | 14 | #760 |
| 1908 | — | — | 15 | #687 |
| 1907 | — | — | 10 | #875 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,264 |
| 1905 | — | — | 13 | #670 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #888 |
| 1903 | — | — | 7 | #918 |
| 1902 | — | — | 10 | #751 |
| 1901 | — | — | 15 | #509 |
| 1900 | — | — | 13 | #701 |
| 1899 | — | — | 6 | #947 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,139 |
| 1897 | — | — | 6 | #949 |
| 1896 | — | — | 19 | #465 |
| 1895 | — | — | 11 | #640 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #922 |
| 1892 | — | — | 9 | #757 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #987 |
| 1890 | — | — | 14 | #513 |
| 1889 | — | — | 13 | #529 |
| 1888 | — | — | 9 | #708 |
| 1887 | — | — | 16 | #423 |
| 1886 | — | — | 9 | #652 |
| 1885 | — | — | 10 | #610 |
| 1884 | — | — | 18 | #435 |
| 1883 | — | — | 18 | #413 |
| 1882 | — | — | 11 | #578 |
| 1881 | — | — | 11 | #536 |
| 1880 | — | — | 10 | #605 |
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).