Benjamin
841
Babies in 2024
-66%
10-year change
2004
Peak · 5.14k
-20%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Benjamin
Benjamin peaked among UK boys' names in the early 2000s (5,144 babies in 2004) and has remained in active use — 841 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Benjamin reached its peak in 2004, when 5,144 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #9 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 841 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 90,412 boys have been officially registered with the name Benjamin in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 18,206 boys were registered with the name, starting from 2,490 in 2014 and ending at 841 in 2024.