Benett
Benett was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,855 among boys’ names; 330 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Benett?
#6,855 among boys’ names, 2025
Benett rose from #7,116 in 2015 to #6,855 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 7.0 per million.
19 babies in 2024, the peak
Benett peaked in 2024, when 19 boys were given it, #5,087 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,855 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,087 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,937 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,523 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,794 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,155 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,952 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,690 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,807 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,419 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,116 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,120 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,593 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,666 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,452 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,271 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,127 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,514 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,651 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,875 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,594 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,841 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,834 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,581 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,375 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,897 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,060 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,909 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,045 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Benett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benett has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benett, and how old are they?
An estimated 326 Americans named Benett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 337 people named Benett (28 women and girls, 309 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 250 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above 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).
How common is the spelling Benett?
Benett is a less common spelling of Bennett: SSA has recorded 330 Benett and 74,854 Bennett since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 77,818 babies since 1880, Benett is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 6,692 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
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 Benett
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 Benett and names like it
- Compare Benett and BennettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBenett peaked in 2024.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Benett.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Benett alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.