Bennie
Bennie is given to both girls and boys: 61 girls and 53 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,782 among girls’ names and #2,519 among boys’, #3,235 among all names counting both); 62,689 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Bennie every year since 2025.
An estimated 22,600 Americans named Bennie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (36% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 52 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bennie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bennie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bennie is “a diminutive of the male given name Benjamin.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given names Bernice and Bernadette.”
Diminutives + -ie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bennie?
#2,519 among boys’ names, 2025
Bennie fell from #2,431 in 2015 to #2,519 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 27.1 to 31.0 per million.
1,215 babies in 1929, the peak
Bennie peaked in 1929, when 1,215 babies were given it (959 boys, #158 among boys’ names). The 114 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,782 | 53 | #2,519 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,916 | 54 | #2,506 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,577 | 52 | #2,545 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,392 | 61 | #2,328 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,107 | 49 | #2,629 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,275 | 54 | #2,420 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,672 | 44 | #2,812 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,689 | 38 | #3,056 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,817 | 46 | #2,680 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,979 | 48 | #2,592 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #14,789 | 52 | #2,431 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,290 | 40 | #2,892 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,151 | 55 | #2,301 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,257 | 44 | #2,718 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 54 | #2,349 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 59 | #2,211 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 49 | #2,563 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 54 | #2,374 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 55 | #2,340 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 72 | #1,878 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 55 | #2,182 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 70 | #1,785 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 54 | #2,077 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 72 | #1,644 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,683 | 72 | #1,626 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 73 | #1,609 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 76 | #1,488 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 74 | #1,485 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 95 | #1,225 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 89 | #1,245 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,959 | 98 | #1,156 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 110 | #1,060 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 106 | #1,081 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 105 | #1,065 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 127 | #936 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 142 | #853 | |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,782 | 149 | #808 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,503 | 145 | #783 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,483 | 149 | #749 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 162 | #711 | |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,422 | 143 | #742 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,235 | 159 | #689 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,377 | 166 | #665 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,315 | 199 | #609 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,368 | 209 | #592 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,352 | 208 | #602 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,643 | 249 | #537 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,903 | 246 | #523 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,680 | 237 | #540 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,172 | 219 | #543 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,785 | 261 | #493 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,779 | 245 | #506 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,238 | 245 | #499 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,318 | 270 | #478 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,800 | 312 | #463 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,783 | 350 | #434 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,773 | 331 | #436 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,366 | 376 | #402 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,785 | 369 | #397 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,253 | 443 | #357 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,208 | 448 | #363 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,836 | 513 | #348 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,020 | 520 | #339 |
| 1962 | 51 | #1,576 | 513 | #346 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,668 | 519 | #348 |
| 1960 | 55 | #1,488 | 550 | #329 |
| 1959 | 63 | #1,349 | 598 | #318 |
| 1958 | 75 | #1,226 | 640 | #297 |
| 1957 | 80 | #1,177 | 658 | #291 |
| 1956 | 93 | #1,058 | 732 | #270 |
| 1955 | 107 | #953 | 722 | #258 |
| 1954 | 98 | #983 | 746 | #258 |
| 1953 | 118 | #859 | 772 | #242 |
| 1952 | 125 | #810 | 748 | #249 |
| 1951 | 138 | #745 | 808 | #236 |
| 1950 | 121 | #789 | 758 | #238 |
| 1949 | 143 | #707 | 808 | #225 |
| 1948 | 145 | #688 | 835 | #223 |
| 1947 | 152 | #682 | 923 | #209 |
| 1946 | 183 | #590 | 885 | #196 |
| 1945 | 185 | #535 | 793 | #190 |
| 1944 | 216 | #489 | 820 | #188 |
| 1943 | 236 | #479 | 849 | #189 |
| 1942 | 216 | #507 | 885 | #177 |
| 1941 | 202 | #489 | 837 | #180 |
| 1940 | 195 | #495 | 845 | #175 |
| 1939 | 188 | #489 | 877 | #168 |
| 1938 | 211 | #464 | 872 | #170 |
| 1937 | 213 | #451 | 885 | #166 |
| 1936 | 213 | #443 | 888 | #162 |
| 1935 | 241 | #417 | 934 | #155 |
| 1934 | 228 | #432 | 813 | #173 |
| 1933 | 218 | #436 | 815 | #169 |
| 1932 | 238 | #425 | 883 | #167 |
| 1931 | 222 | #433 | 822 | #169 |
| 1930 | 204 | #470 | 916 | #162 |
| 1929 | 256 | #415 | 959 | #158 |
| 1928 | 226 | #457 | 832 | #174 |
| 1927 | 220 | #470 | 851 | #174 |
| 1926 | 207 | #481 | 865 | #169 |
| 1925 | 254 | #432 | 897 | #169 |
| 1924 | 199 | #498 | 873 | #168 |
| 1923 | 192 | #502 | 772 | #182 |
| 1922 | 212 | #473 | 915 | #166 |
| 1921 | 165 | #554 | 775 | #181 |
| 1920 | 166 | #555 | 856 | #161 |
| 1919 | 179 | #504 | 834 | #162 |
| 1918 | 181 | #506 | 819 | #167 |
| 1917 | 141 | #569 | 730 | #172 |
| 1916 | 118 | #623 | 720 | #169 |
| 1915 | 136 | #548 | 663 | #171 |
| 1914 | 104 | #549 | 598 | #154 |
| 1913 | 101 | #506 | 446 | #159 |
| 1912 | 70 | #576 | 392 | #154 |
| 1911 | 72 | #487 | 227 | #151 |
| 1910 | 65 | #503 | 218 | #146 |
| 1909 | 49 | #545 | 187 | #140 |
| 1908 | 49 | #520 | 158 | #149 |
| 1907 | 45 | #536 | 145 | #157 |
| 1906 | 43 | #528 | 133 | #151 |
| 1905 | 32 | #621 | 136 | #151 |
| 1904 | 34 | #577 | 158 | #134 |
| 1903 | 37 | #529 | 144 | #130 |
| 1902 | 33 | #572 | 124 | #147 |
| 1901 | 27 | #603 | 100 | #155 |
| 1900 | 41 | #524 | 153 | #142 |
| 1899 | 22 | #665 | 94 | #160 |
| 1898 | 26 | #633 | 116 | #146 |
| 1897 | 25 | #618 | 96 | #161 |
| 1896 | 24 | #637 | 96 | #165 |
| 1895 | 26 | #598 | 82 | #188 |
| 1894 | 19 | #686 | 121 | #135 |
| 1893 | 28 | #520 | 78 | #186 |
| 1892 | 21 | #618 | 90 | #175 |
| 1891 | 21 | #573 | 75 | #171 |
| 1890 | 18 | #620 | 54 | #224 |
| 1889 | 17 | #620 | 66 | #197 |
| 1888 | 35 | #420 | 77 | #194 |
| 1887 | 10 | #735 | 48 | #227 |
| 1886 | 22 | #461 | 43 | #258 |
| 1885 | 14 | #579 | 51 | #230 |
| 1884 | 17 | #504 | 51 | #235 |
| 1883 | 6 | #831 | 21 | #372 |
| 1882 | 7 | #749 | 33 | #299 |
| 1881 | 9 | #586 | 32 | #276 |
| 1880 | 8 | #633 | 26 | #335 |
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 Bennie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 62,689 Americans recorded as Bennie, 16% are girls and 84% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bennie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bennie, and how old are they?
22,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 36% of the 62,689 Americans ever recorded as Bennie. The median Bennie alive today is 68 years old; half are between 52 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 19,833 people named Bennie (3,073 women and girls, 16,760 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,143 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4,090 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9,900 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,470 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 896 |
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).
Where are babies named Bennie born?
The states with the most babies named Bennie are Texas, Georgia and Mississippi, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7,932 | #2,626 | 2.3× |
| Georgia | 5,387 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Mississippi | 4,483 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Alabama | 3,821 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| South Carolina | 3,166 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| North Carolina | 3,161 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Arkansas | 2,514 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Louisiana | 2,407 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Tennessee | 2,082 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Kentucky | 1,754 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Bennie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bennie is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 4.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bennie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 112,497 babies since 1880, Bennie is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 114 of their 479 babies (24%), the second 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 Bennie
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 Bennie and names like it
- Compare Bennie and BennyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBennie peaked in 1929.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bennie since 1910.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Bennie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Bennie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.