Ben

Hebrew
"son of"

Ben Origin and Meaning

The name Ben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son of".

Ben, the diminutive of Benjamin or Benedict, can easily stand on its own as a simple, strong, nice-guy choice, though it's somewhat attenuated. Ben is this generation's Bob or Bill.

# 796 in the US

Ben Rank in US Top 1000

# 666 on Nameberry

Ben Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Ben Popularity

Famous People Named Ben

  • Ben
    Levite in King David's day (1 Chr. 15:18)
  • Benjamin "Ben" Jonson
    English poet and playwright
  • Benjamin "Ben" Schwartz
    American comedian and actor
  • Ben Hecht
    American screenwriter
  • Ben Feldman
    American actor
  • Ben Affleck (born Benjamin Geza Affleck
    Boldt), American actor and director
  • Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller
    American actor and director
  • Benjamin Todd "Ben" Roethlisberger
    American football player
  • Benjamin Thomas "Ben" Barnes
    English actor
  • Benjamin David "Ben" Gillies
    Australian drummer
  • Benjamin A. "Ben" Foster
    American actor
  • Bennett Joseph "Ben" Savage
    American actor
  • Benedict Martin Paul "Ben" Mulroney
    Canadian TV presenter
  • Bennett "Ben" Cohen
    American co,founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
  • Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson
    Sr., American politician and retired neurosurgeon
  • Ben Lawrence
    brother of actress Jennifer Lawrence
  • Benjamin "Ben" Gibbard
    American musician
  • Benjamin Jon "Ben" Whishaw
    English actor
  • Benjamin Lauder "Ben" Nicholson
    English painter
  • Benedict "Ben" Carpenter
    English sculptor
  • Joseph Benedict "Ben" Chifley
    16th prime minister of Australia
  • Hunter Benedict "Ben" Shepherd
    American bassist
  • Ben Roy Mottelson
    American,Danish nuclear physicist and Nobel prize winner
  • Ben Haggerty aka Macklemore
    American rapper
  • Benjamin Scott "Ben" Falcone
    American actor, comedian and filmmaker
  • Benjamin Michael "Ben" Seewald
    husband of reality TV personality Jessa Duggar
  • Benjamin August "Ben" Eckstein
    American child actor; triplet brothers Alexander & Caleb
  • Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer, and singer
  • Benjamin Arthur "Ben" McKee
    American musician of band Imagine Dragons
  • Benjamin Schiff “Ben” Platt
    American stage actor
  • Benjamin "Ben" Tyler Cook
    American actor, singer and dancer
  • Ben Needham
    English boy who went missing on the Greek island of Kos in 1991
  • Ben
    stage name of Lee Eunyoung; singer, songwriter, dancer, and former member of South Korean girl group Bebe Mignon
  • Benjamin Levi "Ben" Ross
    American stage actor
  • Benjamin "Ben" Halloran
    Australian international footballer

Ben in Pop Culture

  • Ben Kenobi
    alias used by Obi,Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars: A New Hope"
  • Ben Solo
    the given name of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" villain, Kylo Ren
  • "Ben
    " 1972 horror film about a boy and his pet rat, Ben
  • "Ben
    " song performed by Michael Jackson for the 1970s film of the same name
  • Ben Geller
    Ross and Carol's son on TV's "Friends"
  • Ben Warren
    character on TV's "Grey's Anatomy"
  • Ben Elf
    character from TV series "Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom"
  • Ben Healy
    cop character from TV series "American Gothic"
  • Ben Grimm aka The Thing
    character in Fantastic Four comics
  • Uncle Ben Parker
    character in the Spider,Man series
  • BEN Drowned
    urban myth about a haunted "Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" cartridge
  • Ben Chang
    character from TV series "Community"
  • Ben "Zombie" Parish
    character from the book "The 5th Wave" by Rick Yancey
  • Ben Linus
    character on TV's "Lost"
  • Ben Davidson
    character on soap "One Life to Live"
  • Ben Mitchell
    character on British soap "EastEnders"
  • Ben Wyatt
    character on TV's "Parks and Recreation"
  • Ben Quadrinaros
    pod,racer in "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace"
  • Ben the Tank Engine Twin
    character on TV's "Thomas & Friends"
  • Ben Jackson
    character on TV's "Doctor Who"
  • Ben Boykewich
    character on TV's "The Secret Life of the American Teenager"
  • Ben Fitzgerald
    character on Australian soap "Neighbours"
  • Ben McPhee
    character on Australian soap "Home and Away"
  • Ben Bruckner
    character on TV's "Queer as Folk"
  • Ben Braeden
    character on TV's "Supernatural"
  • Ben Mitchell
    character in "Wolf Creek"
  • Ben Westbourne
    character on TV soap "General Hospital"
  • Ben Davies
    character on British soap "Hollyoaks"
  • Ben Harper
    character on British TV's "My Family"
  • Ben "Bonk" Knox
    character in DC Universe
  • Uncle Ben's
    brand of rice
  • Ben Brockman
    character on TV show 'Outnumbered'
  • Ben
    one of the main characters of Cartoon Saloon's, Song of the Sea
  • Ben Florian
    son of Belle and the Beast in Disney's Descendants
  • Benjamin "Ben" Tennyson
    character in Ben 10
  • Ben Cartwright
    a main character on TV's "Bonanza"
  • Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Gates
    main character of the "National Treaure" movies
  • Ben Cobalt
    character in the Addicted Series
  • Ben Walsh
    character in "Flowerpot"
  • Ben Aaronson
    Penderwick, character in "The Penderwicks" by Jeanne Birsdsill
  • Ben Berry
    character in "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days"
  • Ben Copper
    a character in Hogwarts Mystery
  • Ben Pincus
    a character from the "Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous" TV series