Meaning and history
From a surname derived from a place name, combining Old English beonet, meaning “bentgrass,” and tun, meaning “enclosure.”
20062006: 110 births, rank #1,417
2007: 138 births, rank #1,272
2008: 110 births, rank #1,482
2009: 111 births, rank #1,497
2010: 165 births, rank #1,127
20112011: 212 births, rank #937
2012: 240 births, rank #877
2013: 225 births, rank #917
2014: 223 births, rank #947
2015: 254 births, rank #873
20162016: 278 births, rank #820
2017: 234 births, rank #910
2018: 206 births, rank #1,005
2019: 187 births, rank #1,076
2020: 175 births, rank #1,124
20212021: 157 births, rank #1,225
2022: 155 births, rank #1,254
2023: 145 births, rank #1,315
2024: 150 births, rank #1,303
20252025: 104 births, rank #1,621
Benton moved from #821 to #912 for boys between 2016 and 2017. Its highest annual birth count came in 2016, with 278 births.