girls:
1.8k births since 1917
#3970 (31st percentile)
boys:
61.1k births since 1880
#430 (91st percentile)
overall:
62.9k births since 1880
#934 (88th percentile)
The name Bennett is the #934 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 62,917 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #430 (90.6% percentile) for all time with 61,101 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,970 (30.5% percentile) for all time with 1,816 births since 1917.
Bennett has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1917 for girls).
The name Bennett has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Bennett reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 92.2% percentile (ranked #72) with 2,409 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 2,409 births per million (ranked 92.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1977, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Bennett is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #72 (92.2% percentile) with 2,409 births per million.
For girls, Bennett reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 14.9% percentile (ranked #806) with 83 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 83 births per million (ranked 14.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1998, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Bennett is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #806 (14.9% percentile) with 83 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bennett".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bennett. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.1% confident that Bennett is pronounced as BEH-niht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEH-nuht, at 46.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like B EH1 N IH0 T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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