Benji
28
Babies in 2024
+460%
10-year change
2018
Peak · 30
+17%
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 Benji
Benji is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (28) are up 460% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Benji reached its peak in 2018, when 30 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #958 for UK boys that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 24 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 278 boys have been officially registered with the name Benji in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 218 boys were registered with the name, starting from 5 in 2014 and ending at 28 in 2024.