Bennetta — girls' name
239 babies named Bennetta in U.S. Social Security records since 1912, with the highest year being 1953. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Bennetta was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Bennetta in 1953 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Bennetta
The Social Security Administration has registered 239 babies named Bennetta between 1912 and 1977, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bennetta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1977. The name reached its historical peak in 1953, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Bennetta performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 66 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Bennetta shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Bennetta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 239 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Bennetta at a glance
Last recorded 1977Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Bennetta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1977–1912
- Peak year (1953)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 66 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1977.
239 total births across 66 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1953 with 16 births in a single year.
Bennetta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- 66 births that decade — 28% of Bennetta's all-time total
Bennetta decade highlights
- Peak decade 66 births
- Runner-up 39 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1950s was Bennetta's strongest decade
66 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1912–1977 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.