girls:
67 births since 2009
#5649 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1910
#2862 (38th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1910
#5791 (25th percentile)
The name Bennet is the #5,791 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,979 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 25.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,862 (37.6% percentile) for all time with 1,912 births since 1910. For girls, it ranks #5,649 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 2009.
Bennet first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for boys and 2009 for girls). Birth data for Bennet is available in 94 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (94 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bennet has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 94.3% of babies named Bennet were boys.
For boys, Bennet reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 8.5% percentile (ranked #834) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 45 births per million (ranked 8.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Bennet is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #834 (8.5% percentile) with 45 births per million.
For girls, Bennet reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #928) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Bennet ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 65.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bennet".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Bennet. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.6% confident that Bennet is pronounced as BEH-niht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEH-nuht, at 29.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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