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Baby name
Ben
Boy
Origin of the name
Ben is a short form of Benjamin.
Classic name
85,349births since 1880
1910sgeneration
No. 128rank at its peak, in 1918
Where babies named Ben are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Ben is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Ben is most common in Mississippi (2.8 times), New Mexico (2.6) and South Carolina (2.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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