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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Benay

Recorded for girlsBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

209

peak year 1954

More common than

73%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1954
14 births
Best rank
#2,780
in 1944
First recorded
1938
#3,886 that year
Last recorded
1971
no later published record
Average birth year
1954
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
27 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195414#3,031Peak
  2. 195312#3,281
  3. 194411#2,780
  4. 195111#3,296
  5. 195810#3,948

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,780 in 1944 · peak births 14 in 1954

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 Benay has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.

The boys' series

No boys have been recorded with this name.

Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.