Given name & surname
Benjamine
Benjamine is used as a given name and a surname.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Benjamine isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Benjamine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,807
- 1,807 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 35 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,175 as a first name in 2020; 113 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Benjamine’s family of names
Benjamine may belong to the same name family as BENJAMINNE. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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