Girls' name · since 1920
Benna
Benna has 186 recorded births since 1920 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1947 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #20,540 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 186
- born since 1920
- 1950s
- peak decade
Benna is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 186 have been recorded since 1920.
Benna has 186 recorded births among girls since 1920, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1920 to 2013.
- #20,540 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 186 born since 1920
- 1950s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Benna ranks #20,540 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 186 born since 1920, peaking in the 1950s.
- #20,540 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 186
- born since 1920
- 1950s
- peak decade
Benna's 186 recorded births place it above 71.55% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Benna's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Benna's SSA record in two at 1950 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1920, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1947 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Benna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1920–2013
- Peak year (1947)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 94 years of records
Benna by decade
1950s is the heaviest window (77 births, 41% of the file).
1950s was Benna's strongest decade.
77 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 41% of all-time use.
Benna births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1920s 30
1920s
30 births
- 1930s 16
1930s
16 births
- 1940s
1940s
37 births
- 1950s
1950s
77 births
- 1960s 6
1960s
6 births
- 2000s 12
2000s
12 births
- 2010s 8
2010s
8 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 77 births (41% of all-time use).
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- Benna's decade-level peak was the 1950s (77 total births); usage has since declined to 8 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1920–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Benna draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.