Benton
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#1,623
down −319 places
2025 births
104
down −46 births
All-time births
10,415
1% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2016
- 278 births
- Best rank
- #413
- in 1883
- First recorded
- 1880
- #605 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1978
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 145 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 2016278#821Peak
- 2015254#874
- 2012240#877
- 2017234#912
- 2013225#917
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #413 in 1883 · peak births 278 in 2016
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
10,415 boys · 6 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 Benton has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.