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How popular is the name Benita?
Births per year, rank history and how many Benitas are alive today.
Benita (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 4867th in 2025 and given to 4 babies. The name peaked in 2005, when 14 babies were given the name, the 1589th most popular that year. It has declined since 2005; the 2025 figure is roughly 29% of its peak.
The Benita you are most likely to meet is around 20 years old - or else around 3: the name has two living generations. Half of all Benitas born in England and Wales are between 12 and 27, and there are at least 260 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Benita - on average, only one in every 1,212 such rooms contains a Benita.
How many babies are named Benita each year?
Where does Benita rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Benita most popular?
Benita peaked in 2005, when 14 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Benita?
At least 260 people named Benita born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Benita?
Most living Benitas are between 12 and 27; the most common age is about 20. There is a second cluster around 3.
Is Benita becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2005 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.