How popular is the baby name Benjamin in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Benjamin.

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Popularity of the baby name Benjamin


Posts that mention the name Benjamin

Popular baby names in San Diego (California), 2023

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Two years ago, the California county of San Diego welcomed 35,713 babies — 17,289 girls and 18,424 boys.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Emma and Noah.

Here are San Diego’s top 10+ girl names and top 10 boy names of 2023:

Girl names

  1. Emma, 199 baby girls
  2. Mia, 184
  3. Olivia, 170
  4. Camila, 151
  5. Sophia, 147
  6. Sofia, 144
  7. Isabella, 138
  8. Luna, 125
  9. Amelia, 124
  10. Charlotte, 95 (tie)
  11. Penelope, 95 (tie)

Boy names

  1. Noah, 224 baby boys
  2. Liam, 198
  3. Mateo, 195
  4. Sebastian, 165
  5. Oliver, 154
  6. Elijah, 134
  7. Luca, 127
  8. Julian, 124
  9. Benjamin, 122 (tie)
  10. Santiago, 122 (tie)

A year earlier, in 2022, the top names were Olivia and Mateo.

P.S. I’ve also posted 2023 rankings for the California county of Sonoma.

Source: Data on Children – SanDiegoCounty.gov

Image: Adapted from Flag of California (public domain)

Popular baby names in Buenos Aires, 2024

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Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, is home to over 3.1 million people.

Last year, the most popular baby names in the city were Olivia and Mateo, according to data from the Buenos Aires Civil Registry.

Here are the city’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2024:

Girl names

  1. Olivia, 544 baby girls
  2. Sofía, 420
  3. Emma, 400
  4. Emilia, 382
  5. Isabella, 322
  6. Catalina, 321
  7. Martina, 295
  8. Delfina, 281
  9. Mía, 262
  10. Valentina, 258

Boy names

  1. Mateo, 524 baby boys
  2. Felipe, 445
  3. Enzo, 426
  4. Bautista, 383
  5. Benjamín, 374
  6. Valentino, 307
  7. Bruno, 306
  8. Liam, 299
  9. Noah, 291
  10. Joaquín, 275

The city’s news release also mentioned several of the baby names that were bestowed fewer than 100 times each last year…

  • Girl names: Antonia, Cielo, Elena, Eva, Luz
  • Boy names: Amadeo, Beltrán, Franco, Nicolás

I’ve never posted rankings for Buenos Aires before, but here are the most recent rankings for Argentina (2023), if you’d like to compare this list to that one.

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Flag of Argentina (public domain)

Missouri quadruplets: Adam, Benjamin, Christopher, Dylan

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In December of 1999, Susan and Rick Hellebusch of Missouri welcomed quadruplets, all boys.

The babies were born at 30 weeks’ gestation and weighed less than three pounds each.

What were they named?

Adam, Benjamin, Christopher, and Dylan.

Why? Because Susan and Rick had noticed that the babies were labeled A, B, C, and D on the sonogram. They’d already chosen the name Dylan, so they “decided to start at the top of the alphabet to select the remaining three” names.

The couple went on to have two more babies, daughters named Elizabeth and Maria.

P.S. As a nursing student in the early 2020s, Ben Hellebusch happened to meet one of the neonatal nurses who’d cared for him and his brothers. The nurse still remembered the quads’ alphabetical names, saying: “I thought it was the cutest thing that [their mom] did that.”

Sources:

Image: Ein Kinderfest (1868) by Ludwig Knaus

Popular baby names in Argentina, 2023

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Two years ago, the South American country of Argentina welcomed 552,664 babies — 269,614 (48.8%) girls and 283,050 (51.2%) boys.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Olivia and Felipe, according to data from Argentina’s Registro Nacional de las Personas (RENAPER).

Here are Argentina’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2023:

Girl names

  1. Olivia, 2,432 baby girls
  2. Emilia, 2,298
  3. Isabella, 1,838
  4. Catalina, 1,764
  5. Emma, 1,560
  6. Martina, 1,545
  7. Sofía, 1,395
  8. Delfina, 1,275
  9. Valentina, 1,118
  10. Renata, 892

Boy names

  1. Felipe, 1,862 baby boys
  2. Mateo, 1,747
  3. Benjamín, 1,685
  4. Valentino, 1,456
  5. Bautista, 1,364
  6. Julián, 1,300
  7. Benicio, 1,194
  8. Lorenzo, 1,147
  9. Joaquín, 1,119
  10. Tomás, 1,074

My source article noted that Julián leapt into the boys’ top 10 after being ranked 25th in 2022, 38th in 2021, and 36th in 2020.

Source: Giambartolomei, Mauricio. “¿Cómo se llaman tus hijos? Estos son los diez nombres más elegidos en la Argentina.” La Nacion 18 Mar. 2024.

Image: Adapted from Flag of Argentina (public domain)