Ben
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Ben
Ben, the diminutive of Benjamin or Benedict, can easily stand on its own as a simple, strong, nice-guy choice, though it's somewhat attenuated. Ben is this generation's Bob or Bill.
Ben is also given to girls.
Pronounced BEN.
As of October 2026, Ben ranked #843 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #43 in 1889, Nameberry popularity #837.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #717 | 336 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #738 | 330 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #698 | 354 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #732 | 327 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #692 | 350 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #720 | 339 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #768 | 313 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #765 | 327 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #766 | 329 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #796 | 311 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #801 | 313 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #843 | 292 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Ben on lists
Famous Bens
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Boldt), American actor and director
- Benjamin Edward "Ben" StillerBoy
American actor and director
- Benjamin Todd "Ben" RoethlisbergerBoy
American football player
- Benjamin Thomas "Ben" BarnesBoy
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- Benjamin David "Ben" GilliesBoy
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American actor
- Bennett Joseph "Ben" SavageBoy
American actor
- Benedict Martin Paul "Ben" MulroneyBoy
Canadian TV presenter
- Bennett "Ben" CohenBoy
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- Benjamin Solomon "Ben" CarsonBoy
Sr., American politician and retired neurosurgeon
- Ben LawrenceBoy
brother of actress Jennifer Lawrence
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English actor
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English painter
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English sculptor
- Joseph Benedict "Ben" ChifleyBoy
16th prime minister of Australia
- Hunter Benedict "Ben" ShepherdBoy
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American actor, comedian and filmmaker
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- Ben VereenBoy
American actor, dancer, and singer
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American musician of band Imagine Dragons
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American stage actor
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American actor, singer and dancer
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English boy who went missing on the Greek island of Kos in 1991
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stage name of Lee Eunyoung; singer, songwriter, dancer, and former member of South Korean girl group Bebe Mignon
- Benjamin Levi "Ben" RossBoy
American stage actor
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Australian international footballer
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Christian singer/songwriter
Ben in pop culture
- Ben KenobiBoy
alias used by Obi,Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars: A New Hope"
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the given name of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" villain, Kylo Ren
- "BenBoy
" 1972 horror film about a boy and his pet rat, Ben
- "BenBoy
" song performed by Michael Jackson for the 1970s film of the same name
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Ross and Carol's son on TV's "Friends"
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character on TV's "Grey's Anatomy"
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character from TV series "Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom"
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cop character from TV series "American Gothic"
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character in Fantastic Four comics
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character in the Spider,Man series
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urban myth about a haunted "Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" cartridge
- Ben ChangBoy
character from TV series "Community"
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character from the book "The 5th Wave" by Rick Yancey
- Ben LinusBoy
character on TV's "Lost"
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character on soap "One Life to Live"
- Ben MitchellBoy
character on British soap "EastEnders"
- Ben WyattBoy
character on TV's "Parks and Recreation"
- Ben QuadrinarosBoy
pod,racer in "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace"
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character on TV's "Thomas & Friends"
- Ben JacksonBoy
character on TV's "Doctor Who"
- Ben BoykewichBoy
character on TV's "The Secret Life of the American Teenager"
- Ben FitzgeraldBoy
character on Australian soap "Neighbours"
- Ben McPheeBoy
character on Australian soap "Home and Away"
- Ben BrucknerBoy
character on TV's "Queer as Folk"
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character on TV's "Supernatural"
- Ben MitchellBoy
character in "Wolf Creek"
- Ben WestbourneBoy
character on TV soap "General Hospital"
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character on British soap "Hollyoaks"
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character on British TV's "My Family"
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character in DC Universe
- Uncle Ben'sBoy
brand of rice
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character on TV show 'Outnumbered'
- BenBoy
one of the main characters of Cartoon Saloon's, Song of the Sea
- Ben FlorianBoy
son of Belle and the Beast in Disney's Descendants
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character in Ben 10
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a main character on TV's "Bonanza"
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main character of the "National Treaure" movies
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character in the Addicted Series
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character in "Flowerpot"
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Penderwick, character in "The Penderwicks" by Jeanne Birsdsill
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