Benicio

What Benicio means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Benicio yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #672 vs #1,613 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Benicio?

US: Rising: up from #1327 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #3908 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 405 boys got the name (#672 that year). First in the US records in 1988.

How common

• About 1 in 4,217 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 16,996 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MA (0.89 per 1,000 boys), NM (0.77 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.71 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Benicio is #672 in the US and #1613 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Benicio were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

If you like Benicio

Boys

• Maximo#580Editor’s note Up from #853 in 2015 to #580 in 2025 in the US
• Leonardo#91Italian, from Old French Leonard, meaning “as strong as a lion”^*
• Rocco#459Editor’s note Up from #463 in 2015 to #459 in 2025 in the US
• Alessandro#497Italian form of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Joaquin#355Spanish form of Joachim, meaning “may Yahweh raise up”^*
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*

For a sister

• Lola#275Editor’s note Down from #224 in 2015 to #275 in 2025 in the US
• Gia#287Editor’s note Up from #372 in 2015 to #287 in 2025 in the US
• Ximena#183Basque, meaning “son”^*
• Bella#136Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Luciana#273Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #273 vs #1,809 in 2025
• Alessandra#443Italian form of Alexandra, meaning “to defend + man”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Spanish & Italian, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Benicio’s. Rank is US 2025.