Bennet
Bennet was given to 101 boys in 2025, #1,654 among boys’ names; 2,176 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,920 Americans named Bennet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bennet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bennet mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bennet is “a male given name from Latin, in modern use often transferred back from the surname.”
From Benedict. See French Benoît, Norman Beneît. Doublet of Benoit and Benito.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bennet?
#1,654 among boys’ names, 2025
Bennet rose from #2,385 in 2015 to #1,654 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 28.2 to 59.1 per million.
109 babies in 2025, the peak
Bennet peaked in 2025, when 109 babies were given it (101 boys, #1,654 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 81 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,654 | 59.1 |
| 2024 | 81 | #1,941 | 47.0 |
| 2023 | 82 | #1,913 | 47.9 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,059 | 41.8 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,133 | 38.3 |
| 2020 | 52 | #2,470 | 30.1 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,268 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,189 | 34.7 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,349 | 29.7 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,114 | 34.8 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #2,385 | 28.2 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,581 | 24.5 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,715 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,453 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 57 | #2,265 | 30.0 |
| 2010 | 43 | #2,793 | 22.4 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,111 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 53 | #2,406 | 26.0 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,518 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,529 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,615 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,080 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,626 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,024 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 35 | #2,681 | 18.0 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,077 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,560 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,714 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,825 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,684 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,101 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,906 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,668 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,339 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,469 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #3,987 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,842 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,081 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,351 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,491 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,419 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,630 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,903 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,697 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,345 | 2.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,850 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,876 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,486 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 7 | #3,999 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,335 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,207 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,013 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,637 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,797 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,070 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,843 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,678 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,914 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 17 | #1,976 | 8.0 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,308 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 19 | #1,842 | 9.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,503 | 5.1 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,097 | 7.1 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,222 | 6.3 |
| 1954 | 17 | #1,892 | 8.3 |
| 1953 | 16 | #1,965 | 8.1 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,084 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,858 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,218 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,816 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,228 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,513 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,203 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,374 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,472 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,587 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,155 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,623 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,339 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,200 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,588 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,544 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,762 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,306 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,333 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,886 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,454 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,008 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,741 | 5.4 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,821 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 6 | #3,908 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,516 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,133 | 8.2 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,041 | 5.4 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,579 | 11.6 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,610 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bennet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,176 Americans recorded as Bennet, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls and 101 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bennet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bennet, and how old are they?
1,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 2,176 Americans ever recorded as Bennet. The median Bennet alive today is 15 years old; half are between 6 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,972 people named Bennet (131 women and girls, 1,841 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,493 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Bennet rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 21 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 159 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 67 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 186 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 583 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 899 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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, Bennet is the second most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 109 of their 6,692 babies (1.6%), again the second 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 Bennet
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 Bennet and names like it
- Compare Bennet and BennettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBennet peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bennet since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Bennet: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Bennet.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bennet alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.