Benzion
Masculine · “son of Zion”
Benzion is a Hebrew compound meaning son of Zion, and Zion is the hill in Jerusalem that came to stand for the whole city and then for a people's longing for it.
How old is the name Benzion?
Benzion first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Benzion alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 1,000 people named Benzion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Benzion most popular?
Benzion peaked in 1985, reaching #2116 nationally. Today it ranks #3658, 1,542 places below that high. See the whole 1985 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ben Tziyon to Benzion
The story of Benzion
Zion began as the name of a fortified hill in Jerusalem and expanded to mean the temple mount, the city and eventually the people's relationship to it — the whole vocabulary of return runs through the word. Benzion is a compound name used in Jewish communities for centuries and remains common in observant and Hasidic families, often written as one word in American records.
Meaning
son of Zion
From Hebrew ben, a son, and Tziyon, Zion; the hill's own name has no settled derivation, though a connection to a word for a dry place or a landmark has been proposed. The compound is unambiguous.
How the name formed
- Ben Tziyon
- Benzion
Related forms: Ben-Tzion · Bentzion
Pronouncing Benzion
ben-TSY-on
Three syllables with the stress in the middle; the tz is a single sound as in cats.
Nicknames for Benzion
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1955
- Most boys named
- 202438 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2116reached in 1985
- Change vs 2024
- −21.1%30 in 2025, from 38
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Benzion in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ben-Tzion in Hebrew — same name
- Bentzion in Yiddish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey.
Benzions among us
people named Benzion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 56,936 born in 2025 was named Benzion
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Juanito test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Benzion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Juanito climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Juanito's path sketches the road Benzion is walking now.
Benzion sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Benzion is headed
Benzion looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 17% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Benzion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Benzion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that forms a complete phrase.
- Ben is available immediately as an entirely ordinary short form.
- Bentzi is a warm short form already in universal community use.
- It is very strongly marked as a community name, which is the intention in the families that use it.
- The tz is a single sound in Hebrew and gets split in English.
- Benzion, Bentzion and Ben-Zion are all in use and none is standard in American records.
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Masculine · #3658 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Benzions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Benzion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Benzion in 2025?
- Benzion ranks #3658 among US boy names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Benzion?
- About 1 in every 56,936 US boys born in 2025 was named Benzion — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Benzion with classmates?
- Benzion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Benzion
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