Benny
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#841
up +47 places
2025 births
293
up +26 births
All-time births
48,500
1% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1948
- 1,065 births
- Best rank
- #172
- in 1939
- First recorded
- 1882
- #954 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1957
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 143 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19481,065#189Peak
- 19471,061#191
- 19461,003#184
- 1949969#206
- 1943960#176
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #172 in 1939 · peak births 1,065 in 1948
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
48,500 boys · 644 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 Benny has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.