In 2025, 101 US boys were named Bennet, making it the 1,654th most common boys’ name of the year, up 287 places from #1,941 in 2024. That is 20 more than the 81 boys named Bennet in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,611, reached in 1910. The most boys given the name in a single year was 101, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,386 in 2015 and #2,219 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bennet in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 2,176 US babies have been given the name, 3.7% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 585 babies named Bennet.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 701 US boys were named Bennet; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 101. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,912 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bennet ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #402 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ben (85,816 babies since 1880), Bennett (74,854 babies since 1880), Benito (14,804 babies since 1880) and Benedict (10,475 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bianet are summarised on this page.