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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Last year, the Commonwealth of Virginia — which is home to more than 8.7 million people — welcomed roughly 95,000 babies.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Charlotte and Liam, according to the Virginia Department of Health’s Office of Vital Records.
Here are Virginia’s top 15 girl names and top 15 boy names of 2023:
Girl names
Charlotte
Emma
Olivia*
Sophia
Amelia
Evelyn
Ava
Isabella
Elizabeth
Mia
Eleanor
Harper
Sofia
Luna
Abigail
*In the press release, Olivia was spelled “Oliva.” I’m assuming this was a typo.
Boy names
Liam
Noah
James
Oliver
William
Lucas
Henry
Theodore
Benjamin
Levi
Elijah
Luke
John
Michael
Gabriel
The state also revealed the top names among the state’ four largest ethnic groups: White, Black, Hispanic and Asian. (According to the most recent CDC data, from 2021, 54.3% of Virginia’s babies were born to non-Hispanic White mothers, 20.0% to Black mothers, 15.7% to Hispanic mothers, and 7.3% to Asian mothers.)
These were the top 5 girl names and 5 boy names among Virginia’s White babies:
Girl names, White
Boy names, White
1. Charlotte 2. Olivia 3. Emma 4. Amelia 5. Sophia
1. James 2. William 3. Oliver 4. Henry 5. Liam
These were the top 5 girl names and 5 boy names among Virginia’s Black babies:
Girl names, Black
Boy names, Black
1. Ava 2. Naomi 3. Nova 4. Serenity 5. Autumn
1. Noah 2. Amir 3. Josiah 4. Elijah 5. Legend
These were the top 5 girl names and 5 boy names among Virginia’s Hispanic babies:
Girl names, Hispanic
Boy names, Hispanic
1. Mia 2. Camila* 3. Genesis* 4. Isabella 5. Sofia
1. Liam 2. Mateo 3. Dylan 4. Thiago 5. Lucas
*In the press release, Camila and Genesis were spelled “Camilla” and “Genisis.” I’m assuming these were typos as well.
And, finally, these were the top 5 girl names and 5 boy names among Virginia’s Asian babies:
Girl names, Asian
Boy names, Asian
1. Olivia 2. Ava 3. Sophia 4. Sophie 5. Charlotte
1. Noah 2. Lucas 3. Muhammad 4. Ethan 5. Alexander
Here’s a link to Virginia’s 2022 rankings, if you’d like to compare last year to the year before.
The South American country of Uruguay doesn’t publish an annual list of top baby names per se, but Uruguay’s Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil (DNIC) does release a list of all the names used among people who obtained their Uruguayan identity card for the first time within a given year.
As we saw in 2021 and 2020, the DNIC rankings combine all names (male and female) together on a single list, but don’t combine different forms of the same name (e.g., Maria and María) into single entries on that list. Most notably, the rankings account for not just first-name usage, but also second-name usage (as Uruguayans are allowed to include a maximum of two given names on their identity cards).
So now that we have all that out of the way… the DNIC data reveals that the most-registered names in the country in 2022 were María and Juan.
Here are Uruguay’s top 100+ registered names of 2022:
María, 1,170 babies
Juan, 1,138
Maria, 1,108
Isabella, 885
Benjamín, 780
Emma, 766
Mateo, 728
Valentina, 660
Catalina, 659
Luis, 648
Alejandro, 647
Martina, 640
Felipe, 637
Carlos, 589
Valentín, 568
Ezequiel, 562
Emilia, 559
Manuel, 556
Daniel, 555
Lorenzo, 550
Julieta, 546
José, 535
Gabriel, 518
Jose, 517
Nicolás, 491
Sofía, 486
Ignacio, 455
Alberto, 452
Santiago, 450
Francisco, 442
David, 438
Agustín, 435
Olivia, 429
Josefina, 422
Valentino, 416
Antonio, 410 (tie)
Lucas, 410 (tie)
Bautista, 405
Delfina, 396
Lautaro, 389
Benjamin, 384
Eduardo, 383
Belén, 378
Thiago, 372
Gael, 371
Santino, 370
Victoria, 367
Javier, 365
Agustina, 363
Jorge, 362
Emiliano, 358
Dante, 357
Alexander, 351
Tomás, 342
Paulina, 335
Miguel, 334
Rafael, 329
Ana, 324
Joaquín, 320
Samuel, 315
Pablo, 313
Sofia, 309
Pilar, 308
Diego, 307
Zoe, 306
Alfonsina, 300
Renata, 297
Clara, 278 (3-way tie)
Liam, 278 (3-way tie)
Sebastián, 278 (3-way tie)
Milagros, 276
Francesca, 271
Fernando, 268
Emily, 265
Enrique, 262
Facundo, 261
Federico, 260 (tie)
Pedro, 260 (tie)
Angel, 258
Bastian, 253
Bruno, 252 (tie)
Martín, 252 (tie)
Alejandra, 251
Carolina, 249 (tie)
Noah, 249 (tie)
Guadalupe, 246
Nicolas, 243
Vicente, 240
Enzo, 235
Salvador, 228
Sebastian, 227
Juana, 225
Valentin, 222
Guillermo, 220
Alma, 218 (tie)
Emanuel, 218 (tie)
Nahuel, 215
Camila, 211 (tie)
Elena, 211 (tie)
Andres, 210
Andrés, 209 (3-way tie)
Benicio, 209 (3-way tie)
Paz, 209 (3-way tie)
Gabriela, 208
Beatriz, 207
Ciro, 206 (tie)
Martin, 206 (tie)
Maite, 203
Andrea, 202
Elizabeth, 200 (tie)
Laura, 200 (tie)
Isabel, 199 (tie)
Mia, 199 (tie)
Luciano, 198
Ismael, 197
Jazmín, 195
Camilo, 194
Marcelo, 192
Franco, 190
Agustin, 189
Alfonso, 187
Aitana, 186 (tie)
Bianca, 186 (tie)
Ramiro, 185
Gustavo, 184
Cataleya, 183
Roberto, 178
Ariel, 176
Lucía, 174
Micaela, 173 (tie)
Ricardo, 173 (tie)
(I went down this far to ensure that at least fifty girl names were included.)
Here are a few names from lower down on the list:
80 babies were named Celeste, which is the nickname of Uruguay’s national soccer team.
73 babies were named Aylen, and roughly two hundred more were given a different spelling of the name (e.g., Ayelen, Aylén, Ayelén, Aylín, Aylin). This is a Mapuche name with several possible meanings, including “ember” and “clear.”
38 babies were named Coromoto, which comes from a Marian title.
15 babies were named Inti, which is the Quechua word for “sun.”
9 babies were named Amaru, which is the Quechua word for “snake.”
8 babies were named Borja, which comes from the name of Spanish saint Francisco de Borja.
7 babies were named Irupé, which is the Guaraní word for the large South American water-lily Victoria cruziana.
5 babies were named Yamandú, which was the name of a historical Guarani chief.
4 babies were named Chiquinquira, which comes from a Marian title.
Two others were named Aurora de la Chiquinquira and Leomarys de la Chiquinquira.
4 babies were named Itanú, which is a Charrúa name said to mean “heartbeat of stone.”
3 babies were named Guidaí, which is the Charrúa word for “moon.”
3 babies were named Tacuabé, which was the name of a historical Charrúa man.
Following the Massacre of Salsipuedes in 1831, Tacuabé and several other Charrúa prisoners were taken to France to be put on exhibition.
2 babies were named Amancay, which is a Quechua word that refers to a lily-like South American flower.
2 babies were named Amapola, which means “poppy” in Spanish.
2 babies were named Atahualpa, which was the name of the last emperor of the Inca.
2 babies were named Everton, which may refer to Everton F.C.
2 babies were named Leunam, which is Manuel spelled backwards.
2 babies were named Pérola, which means “pearl” in Portuguese.
2 babies were named Uruguay.
And, because Uruguay releases all of its baby name data, we can also check out the unique names at the bottom of the list. Here’s a selection Uruguay’s single-use baby names of 2022:
Last year, the City of Boston welcomed a total of 20,645 babies.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Olivia and Liam.
Here are Boston’s top 20 girl names and top 20 boy names of 2023:
Girl names
Olivia
Emma
Sophia
Charlotte
Sofia
Isabella
Grace
Chloe
Amelia
Maya
Luna
Gianna
Mia
Nora
Ava
Natalie
Ella
Emilia
Maeve
Eleanor
Boy names
Liam
Noah
Henry
Leo
Theodore
Jack
Julian
James
Thomas
Benjamin
William
Luca
John
Ethan
Logan
Aiden
Charles
Samuel
Joseph
Oliver
Thomas caught my eye — it’s a top-10 boy name in Boston, but (in 2022) it only managed to rank 22nd state-wide and 45th country-wide.
Massachusetts’ top baby names of 2023 won’t be revealed until May, when the new SSA data comes out, but the state’s #1 names in 2022 were Olivia and Noah. (Noah won by a wide margin, in fact. It was given to 142 more baby boys than second-place Liam.)
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