Bennie
Bennie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 53 births. Its best rank was 130th, in 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 530.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1929959 births
- Best rank
- #130in 1903
- Since 1880
- 62,567people given the name
The story in the numbers
52,692 boys have been named Bennie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1929, with 959 births.
The name has all but left use: 53 births in 2024, against 959 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1930s alone account for 17%. It has spent 112 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Bennie is used for both sexes: 16% of its bearers are girls (9,875), most of them born around 1929.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Bennie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 448 | |
| 1890s | 902 | |
| 1900s | 1,438 | |
| 1910s | 5,647 | |
| 1920s | 8,595 | |
| 1930s | 8,705 | |
| 1940s | 8,480 | |
| 1950s | 7,182 | |
| 1960s | 4,582 | |
| 1970s | 2,634 | |
| 1980s | 1,689 | |
| 1990s | 1,022 | |
| 2000s | 621 | |
| 2010s | 479 | |
| 2020s | 268 |
In 1929, its biggest year
Bennie was the 158th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1929 were Robert, James, John, William and Charles. See all of 1929.
Names that rose and fell with Bennie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Johnniepeak 1928
- Cliffordpeak 1925
- Haywardpeak 1956
- Carlpeak 1956
- Ralphpeak 1921
- Loypeak 1922
- Laurencepeak 1952
- Meltonpeak 1921
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.