Benna
Benna was last recorded in 2013, when 8 babies were given it; 186 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Benna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,171, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1947, the peak
Benna peaked in 1947, when 11 girls were given it, #3,262 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,171 | 4.6 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,694 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,107 | 3.3 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,907 | 3.1 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,542 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,227 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,022 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,398 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #3,996 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,259 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 11 | #3,388 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,296 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 8 | #3,985 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,231 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,262 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,691 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,235 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,683 | 3.7 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,175 | 7.6 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,250 | 7.5 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,627 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,456 | 6.9 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,355 | 5.1 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,430 | 5.0 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,061 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Benna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Benna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Benna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benna, and how old are they?
An estimated 110 Americans named Benna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 68 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 293 people named Benna (278 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 127 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 1,868 babies since 1880, Benna is the fourth most given (10.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 35 babies recorded by SSA was a Benna (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.
More about Benna and names like it
- Compare Benna and BenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sBenna peaked in 1947.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Benna.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Benna alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.