Benson
16
Babies in 2024
+129%
10-year change
2016
Peak · 19
+129%
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 Benson
Benson is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (16) are up 129% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Benson reached its peak in 2016, when 19 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,363 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 16 represents 84% of the peak.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 239 boys have been officially registered with the name Benson in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 120 boys were registered with the name, starting from 7 in 2014 and ending at 16 in 2024.