girls:
63 births since 1956
#5653 (1st percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1952
#2780 (39th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1952
#5683 (27th percentile)
The name Benji is the #5,683 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,100 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 26.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,780 (39.4% percentile) for all time with 2,037 births since 1952. For girls, it ranks #5,653 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 63 births since 1956.
Benji first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (1952 for boys and 1956 for girls). Birth data for Benji is available in 70 out of the 72 years between 1952 and 2023 (70 years for boys and 11 years for girls). 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.
The name Benji has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Benji reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 24.3% percentile (ranked #500) with 104 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 104 births per million (ranked 24.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1999, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Benji ranks #809 for boys (11.2% percentile) with 58 births per million, which is 56.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Benji reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #750) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Benji ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 55.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Benji".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Benji is pronounced as BEHN-jee, which has 2 syllables.
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