Benjamim
Benjamim is a name with a single cultural origin: Portuguese.
- Portuguese
Meaning & Origin of Benjamim
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Benjamim is a name with a single cultural origin: Portuguese.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Portuguese
The Story of Benjamim
American parents first put Benjamim on the record books as a baby boy name in 1985, with 8 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2018, when 12 Benjamims were born — ranking #6,700 that year. About 45% of every Benjamim on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Benjamim last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 84 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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About the name Benjamim
Benjamim is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1985 and has accumulated 84 births in the dataset. Benjamim's peak popularity came in 2018 when it ranked #6,700. Use the chart and map above to compare Benjamim's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.