Benuel

boys:

886 births since 1945

#3702 (19th percentile)

overall:

886 births since 1945

#6853 (11th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Benuel is the #6,853 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 886 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 11.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,702 (19.2% percentile) for all time with 886 births since 1945.

Benuel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (first recorded for boys in 1945). Birth data for Benuel is available in 65 out of the 79 years between 1945 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, Benuel reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #902) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Benuel ranks #889 for boys (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 83.7% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Benuel".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
886
Peak Births
33
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
1945
Peak Percentile
3.0%
Current Percentile
2.4%
Peak Rank
#902
Current Rank
#889
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Benuel

Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Benuel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 26.1% confident that Benuel is pronounced as BEH-nyue-ehl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEH-nyue-EHL, at 21.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.

BEH-nyue-ehl (3 syllables)
26.1% confidence
B EH1 N Y UW0 EH0 L
BEH-nyue-EHL (3 syllables)
21.7% confidence
B EH1 N Y UW0 EH1 L
BEHN-wehl (2 syllables)
15.2% confidence
B EH1 N W EH0 L
BEH-nyue-uhl (3 syllables)
8.7% confidence
B EH1 N Y UW0 AH0 L
BEH-nue-ehl (3 syllables)
8.7% confidence
B EH1 N UW0 EH0 L
BEH-nyuel (2 syllables)
6.5% confidence
B EH1 N Y UW0 L
BEH-nue-uhl (3 syllables)
4.3% confidence
B EH1 N UW0 AH0 L
BEHN-WEHL (2 syllables)
4.3% confidence
B EH1 N W EH1 L
beh-NYUE-ehl (3 syllables)
4.3% confidence
B EH0 N Y UW1 EH0 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like B EH1 N Y UW0 EH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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