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The name Benjamin is of Hebrew origin, and means son of the right hand. The table below indicates the number of times the name Benjamin has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Benjamin**
Use of the Name Benjamin for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
559,261	463,524	344,798	136,413	70,074	27,557	13,567

The table below indicates the number of times the name Benjamin has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Benjamin**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	32	490
1881	31	481
1882	34	479
1883	31	508
1884	38	509
1885	38	464
1886	39	463
1887	34	472
1888	25	781
1889	21	760
1890	37	537
1891	41	461
1892	42	525
1893	42	481
1894	44	469
1895	48	452
1896	51	416
1897	54	378
1898	55	405
1899	57	335
1900	57	452
1901	56	343
1902	61	374
1903	69	325
1904	68	358
1905	68	379
1906	71	352
1907	64	460
1908	63	479
1909	63	487
1910	71	535
1911	64	688
1912	67	1,269
1913	70	1,465
1914	70	1,823
1915	71	2,239
1916	80	2,182
1917	76	2,386
1918	79	2,436
1919	79	2,281
1920	83	2,306
1921	82	2,413
1922	82	2,374
1923	86	2,322
1924	89	2,217
1925	93	2,073
1926	98	1,895
1927	101	1,909
1928	106	1,794
1929	107	1,695
1930	113	1,603
1931	113	1,555
1932	116	1,535
1933	118	1,408
1934	117	1,481
1935	123	1,407
1936	124	1,347
1937	119	1,423
1938	125	1,412
1939	124	1,421
1940	128	1,451
1941	124	1,570
1942	129	1,685
1943	130	1,709
1944	131	1,619
1945	140	1,557
1946	146	1,661
1947	144	1,925
1948	140	1,962
1949	135	2,010
1950	123	2,188
1951	123	2,337
1952	122	2,441
1953	128	2,398
1954	132	2,455
1955	132	2,431
1956	130	2,472
1957	138	2,491
1958	151	2,246
1959	150	2,330
1960	155	2,238
1961	146	2,386
1962	140	2,508
1963	144	2,349
1964	131	2,507
1965	133	2,336
1966	130	2,373
1967	119	2,504
1968	99	3,014
1969	91	3,370
1970	81	3,917
1971	69	4,234
1972	64	4,493
1973	55	5,217
1974	46	7,172
1975	36	9,517
1976	32	10,653
1977	29	12,080
1978	34	11,398
1979	33	12,490
1980	32	13,590
1981	32	14,326
1982	33	13,773
1983	32	13,263
1984	31	13,235
1985	31	13,407
1986	30	13,773
1987	28	14,856
1988	30	15,150
1989	29	15,716
1990	33	14,594
1991	33	13,868
1992	33	13,420
1993	33	12,654
1994	31	12,760
1995	31	12,697
1996	29	13,753
1997	29	13,235
1998	30	13,026
1999	29	13,628
2000	26	14,807
2001	27	14,292
2002	27	13,418
2003	24	13,990
2004	25	13,567
Totals:		559,261		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Benjamin as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.

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