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Baby name
Benjamin
Boy
Origin of the name
Benjamin comes, through Latin, from the Hebrew Binyamin, “son of the right hand.” In the Bible, he is the youngest of the sons of Jacob.
Classic name
826,830births since 1880
1980sgeneration
No. 29rank at its peak, in 1989
Where babies named Benjamin are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Benjamin is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Benjamin is most common in New Hampshire (2 times), Alaska (2) and Utah (1.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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