Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Benigna

#25,453 most common girls' name of all time · #41,321 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1915–1987

Rank among girls
#25,453
Rank overall
#41,321 of 105,966
First appeared
1915
Years on the list
15 of 146
All-time
95
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1928 #3,361
Best rank
#3,113 1915
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
1920194019601980

Benigna first appears in 1915. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1987 7 — 7 #8,923
1964 5 — 5 #7,003
1961 5 — 5 #6,812
1937 5 — 5 #4,578
1936 6 — 6 #3,976
1930 5 — 5 #4,888
1929 9 — 9 #3,330
1928 9 — 9 #3,361
1927 5 — 5 #5,184
1925 6 — 6 #4,711
1924 7 — 7 #4,262
1923 7 — 7 #4,226
1922 5 — 5 #5,356
1921 5 — 5 #5,438
1915 9 — 9 #3,113