Benni
Benni is given to both girls and boys: 21 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,749 among girls’ names and #9,829 among boys’, #8,291 among all names counting both); 140 Americans have been recorded with it since 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Benni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Benni?
#5,749 among girls’ names, 2025
Benni rose from #16,853 in 2015 to #5,749 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 13.1 per million.
28 babies in 2025, the peak
Benni peaked in 2025, when 28 babies were given it (21 girls, #5,749 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 16 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,749 | 7 | #9,829 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,981 | 6 | #11,121 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,442 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,616 | 6 | #11,045 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,311 | 5 | #12,384 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,378 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,530 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,693 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,270 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,853 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,394 | 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 Benni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 140 Americans recorded as Benni, 83% are girls and 17% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Benni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Benni, and how old are they?
An estimated 139 Americans named Benni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 6. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 248 people named Benni (123 women and girls, 125 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 36 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.9 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, Benni is the sixth most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 35 babies (80%), the most given that year.
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 Benni
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 Benni and names like it
- Compare Benni and BenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBenni peaked in 2025.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Benni.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Benni alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.