Ben
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#843
down −43 places
2025 births
292
down −22 births
All-time births
85,349
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1918
- 1,276 births
- Best rank
- #43
- in 1889
- First recorded
- 1880
- #58 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1948
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19181,276#128Peak
- 19151,263#113
- 19191,215#126
- 19161,191#119
- 19241,170#141
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #43 in 1889 · peak births 1,276 in 1918
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
85,349 boys · 467 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Ben has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.