Benjamin

The boy's name Benjamin is pronounced BEN-ja-men. It is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is "son of the right hand; son of the south; son of my old age". Biblically, Benjamin was the 12th, youngest and most beloved son of the patriarch Jacob and Rachel. The name was brought into use by the Puritans until the end of the 19th century. After several decades of disuse, it came back to great popularity by the 1970s.