Benji is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Benji is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Benji. In the SmartGenius ranking, Benji is #1,908 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Benji.
Benji is a quite familiar phenomenon. Before 1900, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. It took a while, but then, unexpectedly, Benji cried out for attention, reaching rank 567 in 1975. So, schoolkids of the late 19th century probably didn't have classmates named Benji and it has never reached the top 100 list in our statistics, but for a while it became more and more fashionable in the last century, which makes Benji really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Benji was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
129 babies were named Benji in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,251,364 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Benji ranked 1,294 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which first records are available.
The odds that a man or boy named Benji lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Benji in 22 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Indiana. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Benji live in Louisiana – here, one in 84,029 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 304,606 will turn around if you call his first name Benji.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Benji is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Benji and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Benji, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Elephant
Nut
Joker
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Benji
Benji
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
E
N
J
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
E
N
J
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Benji sounds like this:
