Benji

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Benji: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Benji: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #535, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#535highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2859
1999	#2943
2003	#3467
2004	#3009
2005	#2418
2006	#3385
2007	#4333
2008	#3687
2009	#2544
2010	#2400
2011	#2892
2012	#3987
2013	#3315
2014	#3362
2015	#1902
2016	#1498
2017	#1398
2018	#958
2019	#1655
2020	#1230
2021	#985
2022	#1366
2023	#1175
2024	#1053

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 24 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #535 among boys in Scotland, #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1053 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2859 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Benji appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 278 births with the name.

Benji across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Benji's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#958 (2018)	#1053 (2024)	24 of 28	278 (1997–2024)	30 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#572 (2022)	#572 (2022)	#829 (2025)	3 of 4	12 (2022–2025)	5 (2022)

Benji by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Benji in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	2 of 10	3
2000s	31	7 of 10	4
2010s	119	10 of 10	12
2020sbusiest	122	5 of 10	24

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 24 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Benji appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #535 in Scotland in 2024.

Benji's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1053	28	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1175	24	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1366	19	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#985	30	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1230	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1655	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#958	30	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1398	18	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1498	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1902	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2400	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2544	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2418	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #535, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 30 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Bennett · #395, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Dax · #535, 24y
Franco · #535, 28y
Rafi · #535, 29y
Sanad · #535, 21y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Dax · #535, 24y
Ford · #535, 24y
Forest · #535, 17y
Franco · #535, 28y

Benji was ranked #535 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Benji and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Benji without appearing here.

Benji moved ahead of

Aria Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3987 and #3039 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1902 and #4747.
Arne Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4333 and #3095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1902 and #4747.
Tor Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3362 and #3362 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1902 and #4747.
Robyn Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3009 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #2400 and #4678.

Moved the opposite way to Benji

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Benji went from #2859 to #1053 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Benji went from #2859 to #1053 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Benji went from #2859 to #1053 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Benji went from #2859 to #1053 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Benji

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Benji went from #2859 to #1053 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Benji went from #2859 to #1053 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Benji went from #2859 to #1053 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Benji went from #2859 to #1053 and Archie from #141 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #535 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Benji

Benji at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Benji across 2 official records

Benji by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Benji appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Benji

Benji and the names beside it

Benji moved ahead of

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Benji at a glance

Benji across 2 official records

Benji by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Benji appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Benji

Benji and the names beside it

Benji moved ahead of

Moved the opposite way to Benji

Moved the same way as Benji