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Benton

Pronounced /ˈbɛn.tən/

Rank in 2024
#1,308
Born in 2024
149
Peak year
2016 · #825
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 149 boys were named Benton, about 1 in every 11,512.
  • It peaked in 2016 with 277 babies, ranked #825.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 10,310 boys have been named Benton since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Benton per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 1,260 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Silent: 1,132 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,159 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 841 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,292 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,020 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,387 babies, 0.11 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From either Old English bēan (“bean”) or *beonet (“bentgrass”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈbɛn.tən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Benton, CC BY-SA 4.0.