Benjamin was the 56th most common given name among people in the file born in 1888 — 2,613 carried it. Across all birth years, 124,799 people in the file carry the name; the largest birth cohort of Benjamins was 1912.
Living to 86
Benjamin lived to 86. Among the 757,610 people in the file born in 1888, half lived past 84 and one in four reached 89; the longest-lived made it to 120. Only deaths reported to Social Security between 1936 and 2011 appear in the file, so members of this cohort who died young are not counted — these are the lifespans of its survivors.
2 people with this surname appear in the file. More Gitinstein deaths in the file fall in the 1970s than in any other decade; New York holds the largest share of last residences.