Bento
About 170 American babies have been named Bento since 2016, most of them around 2025. In 2025 it ranked 3,583rd. About 170 Bentos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 3.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Bento
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 170
- Estimated living today
- 170
- Median age today
- 3
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 3,583rd
- Rank in 2025
- 3,583rd
- First recorded
- 2016
How old the living Bentos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 170 babies given the name since 2016, about 170 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2022 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Bentos
- Bento (born 1999)Brazilian footballer
- Bento de Góis (1562–1607)Portuguese explorer and missionary
- Bento Gonçalves (1788–1847)Brazilian politician
- Bento António Gonçalves (1902–1942)Portuguese politician
People named Bento with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bento is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bento is most concentrated in Massachusetts (23.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Bento peaked:
Bento elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Bento | 24 | 2,813th |
| Switzerland boys | Bento | 15 | 982nd |
| Ireland boys | Bento | 11 | 660th |
| France boys | Bento | 5 | 2,121st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Bento: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Bento | 11 | 0.001% | 967th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Bento | 4 | 0.001% | 679th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Bento by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Bento against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.