Name meaning & stats
Benton
Benton. 8,192 US babies since 1940, peak 2016.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Originally a surname.
In US birth records
Peak year: 2016
8,192 US babies were named Benton between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Benton (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 2016)