Bennette
Bennette was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 104 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bennette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bennette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,274, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1961, the peak
Bennette peaked in 1961, when 12 babies were given it (7 girls, #5,341 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #11,274 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,491 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,229 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,487 | |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,908 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,341 | 5 | #4,113 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,169 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,574 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,886 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,712 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 5 | #4,419 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 7 | #2,985 | |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,482 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #3,860 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #3,778 | |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,345 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Bennette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 104 Americans recorded as Bennette, 71% are girls and 29% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bennette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bennette, and how old are they?
An estimated 63 Americans named Bennette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 298 people named Bennette (167 women and girls, 131 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 58 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.1 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 781 babies since 1880, Bennette is the third most given (13% of them).
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 Bennette and names like it
- Compare Bennette and BenettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBennette peaked in 1961.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Bennette.
- Names starting with BMost given first.