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How popular is “Benaiah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Benaiah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Benaiah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Benaiah” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Benaiah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Benaiah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Benaiah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Benaiah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1989 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%
1991 12 0.000003081 12 -100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 -100%
1993 12 0.000003183 12 -100%
1994 10 0.00000269 10 -100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 -100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 -100%
1997 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 -100%
1999 17 0.000004602 17 -100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 -100%
2001 13 0.000003473 13 -100%
2002 16 0.00000428 16 -100%
2003 17 0.000004471 17 -100%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 -100%
2005 26 0.000006762 26 -100%
2006 35 0.000008847 35 -100%
2007 40 0.000010006 40 -100%
2008 41 0.000010431 41 -100%
2009 47 0.000012303 47 -100%
2010 61 0.000016505 61 -100%
2011 67 0.000018317 67 -100%
2012 95 0.000025975 95 -100%
2013 87 0.000023864 87 -100%
2014 97 0.000026171 97 -100%
2015 121 0.000032695 121 -100%
2016 128 0.00003489 128 -100%
2017 128 0.000035792 128 -100%
2018 134 0.000038113 134 -100%
2019 158 0.000045521 158 -100%
2020 122 0.000036521 122 -100%
2021 166 0.000048997 166 -100%
2022 132 0.000039017 132 -100%
2023 120 0.000036241 120 -100%
2024 153 0.000045967 153 -100%

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