Benet
Benet was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 72 Americans have been recorded with it between 2000 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Benet mean?
Wiktionary, Catalan section
Benet is “a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict” Its etymology gives the sense “blessed; well spoken of” (benedictus).
Inherited from Late Latin Benedictus, from benedictus (“blessed; well spoken of”) (whence the Catalan beneit).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Catalan section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Benet?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,477, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2004, the peak
Benet peaked in 2004, when 12 babies were given it (7 boys, #9,037 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #12,477 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #12,380 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #12,497 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 6 | #10,902 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 8 | #8,841 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 6 | #11,215 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,530 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,864 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,463 | 7 | #9,037 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #11,059 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #15,682 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #10,531 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Benet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 72 Americans recorded as Benet, 28% are girls and 72% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Benet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benet, and how old are they?
An estimated 71 Americans named Benet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 294 people named Benet (112 women and girls, 182 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 62 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 77,818 babies since 1880, Benet is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 6,692 babies recorded by SSA was a Benet (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Benet
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Benet and names like it
- Compare Benet and BennettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBenet peaked in 2004.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Benet.
- Names starting with BMost given first.