Binyamin is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Binyamin is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Binyamin. In the SmartGenius ranking, Binyamin is #2,592 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 Binyamin.
In fact, the name Binyamin did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Binyamin seemed to be more popular than ever in 2016. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,253, 51 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Binyamin, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Binyamin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Binyamin a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,532 - with a total of 44 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The first name Binyamin is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 494 Americans in total bear this name. And these 494 men are located in only four states: California, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Binyamin and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Binyamin in relation to it’s male population is New Jersey. And yet even there, only one in 33,366 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Binyamin present.
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 eight letters, the name Binyamin is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Binyamin 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 Binyamin, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Igloo
Nut
Yoyo
Apple
Mouse
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Binyamin
Binyamin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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N
Y
A
M
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N
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
I
N
Y
A
M
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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. Binyamin sounds like this:
