Binnie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Binnie

The Social Security Administration has registered 368 babies named Binnie between 1915 and 1955, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Binnie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1955. The name reached its historical peak in 1942, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Binnie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 100 additional births since 1919.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Binnie performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 144 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Binnie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Binnie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Binnie 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 368 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.