girls:
78 births since 2013
#5638 (1st percentile)
boys:
11 births since 2021
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
89 births since 2013
#7650 (1st percentile)
The name Benni is the #7,650 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 89 recorded births since 2013. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,638 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 78 births since 2013. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2021.
Benni first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2013 (2013 for girls and 2021 for boys). Birth data for Benni is available in 9 out of the 11 years between 2013 and 2023 (9 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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 Benni has been given predominantly to girls, with 87.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Benni were girls.
For girls, Benni reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #926) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Benni ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 61.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Benni reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #923) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Benni".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Benni is pronounced as BEH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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