boys:
1.6k births since 1913
#3072 (33rd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1913
#6143 (21st percentile)
The name Benigno is the #6,143 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,603 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 20.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,072 (33.0% percentile) for all time with 1,603 births since 1913.
Benigno first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (first recorded for boys in 1913). Birth data for Benigno is available in 106 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Benigno reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #740) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Benigno ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 26.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Benigno".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Benigno. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.7% confident that Benigno is pronounced as beh-NEEG-noh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is beh-NEE-nyoh, at 23.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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