Bennie — #2521 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Bennie

The Social Security Administration has registered 52,692 babies named Bennie between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bennie currently holds the #2521 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1929, when 959 babies received it in a single year. Bennie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 9,875 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bennie performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 8,705 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Bennie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5,807 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Bennie in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bennie 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 52,692 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.