Meaning not yet researched.
Bennett: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6,268 in 2025. Its best rank was #40 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 96% of babies named Bennett in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#40 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Bennett: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6,268 boys in 2025. Peak: #40 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 6,268 (2025).
In 2025, 6,268 US boys were named Bennett, making it the 40th most common boys’ name of the year, up 20 places from #60 in 2024. That is 1,159 more than the 5,109 boys named Bennett in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #40, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 6,268. For comparison, it was #154 in 2015 and #588 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bennett in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 15 babies with the name. In all, 74,854 US babies have been given the name, 3.1% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 28,463 babies named Bennett.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 40,398 US boys were named Bennett; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 6,268. In 2025 that was about 1 in 273 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bennett ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #8 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 48 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Ben (85,816 babies since 1880), Benito (14,804 babies since 1880), Benedict (10,475 babies since 1880) and Bennet (2,176 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Benett, Bennette and Benet are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ben, Bennie and Benny.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Benett (330), Bennette (104), Benet (72), Benette (17), Bennit (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 34 | #8 | #33 |
| Iowa | 113 | #9 | #48 |
| Vermont | 20 | #9 | #92 |
| Maine | 41 | #10 | #119 |
| Kansas | 118 | #10 | #92 |
| Missouri | 216 | #10 | #102 |
| Minnesota | 205 | #10 | #51 |
| Michigan | 283 | #12 | #129 |
| Wisconsin | 191 | #13 | #61 |
| South Dakota | 31 | #15 | #58 |
| Nebraska | 61 | #15 | #115 |
| Idaho | 62 | #16 | #100 |
| New Hampshire | 44 | #19 | #95 |
| Ohio | 291 | #20 | #136 |
| Louisiana | 104 | #20 | #130 |
| Montana | 31 | #20 | #142 |
| Oklahoma | 101 | #23 | #152 |
| Colorado | 156 | #24 | #169 |
| Illinois | 259 | #25 | #109 |
| Rhode Island | 24 | #27 | #172 |
| Alabama | 111 | #27 | #118 |
| Indiana | 168 | #28 | #132 |
| Kentucky | 115 | #29 | #170 |
| Pennsylvania | 276 | #30 | #130 |
| Tennessee | 170 | #30 | #161 |
| Massachusetts | 150 | #31 | #127 |
| South Carolina | 104 | #32 | #166 |
| Oregon | 77 | #33 | #137 |
| Washington | 151 | #35 | #97 |
| North Carolina | 234 | #35 | #149 |
| Georgia | 210 | #37 | #147 |
| Utah | 93 | #37 | #84 |
| Wyoming | 10 | #40 | #164 |
| Virginia | 158 | #42 | #150 |
| Arkansas | 55 | #46 | #109 |
| Delaware | 17 | #48 | #208 |
| Mississippi | 43 | #49 | #233 |
| District of Columbia | 15 | #49 | #126 |
| Connecticut | 58 | #56 | #222 |
| Alaska | 12 | #58 | #135 |
| Maryland | 87 | #61 | #183 |
| Florida | 290 | #69 | #233 |
| New York | 236 | #72 | #185 |
| New Jersey | 114 | #79 | #225 |
| Arizona | 96 | #85 | #211 |
| Nevada | 34 | #86 | #247 |
| West Virginia | 20 | #95 | #249 |
| Texas | 416 | #95 | #238 |
| California | 346 | #114 | #272 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #127 | #175 |
| New Mexico | 9 | #216 | #404 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 290 | #912 | 6,268 | #40 |
| 2024 | 234 | #1,065 | 5,109 | #60 |
| 2023 | 146 | #1,488 | 4,422 | #74 |
| 2022 | 112 | #1,821 | 4,105 | #83 |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,565 | 3,939 | #90 |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,872 | 3,601 | #101 |
| 2019 | 118 | #1,747 | 3,531 | #108 |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,730 | 3,301 | #120 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,905 | 3,180 | #123 |
| 2016 | 88 | #2,192 | 2,942 | #140 |
| 2015 | 104 | #1,940 | 2,714 | #154 |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,804 | 2,550 | #166 |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,707 | 2,075 | #194 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,870 | 1,911 | #201 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,643 | 1,492 | #241 |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,982 | 1,212 | #279 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,571 | 1,048 | #308 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,535 | 863 | #362 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,930 | 826 | #371 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,805 | 817 | #366 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,599 | 734 | #391 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,399 | 646 | #404 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,261 | 594 | #429 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,743 | 555 | #445 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,213 | 503 | #470 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,098 | 542 | #441 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,230 | 436 | #498 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,365 | 449 | #487 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,921 | 392 | #514 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,767 | 322 | #568 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,674 | 263 | #641 |
| 1994 | — | — | 245 | #662 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,658 | 218 | #702 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,575 | 239 | #670 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,391 | 231 | #664 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,339 | 225 | #675 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,842 | 249 | #632 |
| 1988 | — | — | 203 | #663 |
| 1987 | — | — | 161 | #720 |
| 1986 | — | — | 165 | #702 |
| 1985 | — | — | 162 | #691 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,238 | 140 | #736 |
| 1983 | — | — | 132 | #752 |
| 1982 | — | — | 124 | #795 |
| 1981 | — | — | 117 | #810 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,546 | 120 | #800 |
| 1979 | — | — | 110 | #831 |
| 1978 | — | — | 75 | #998 |
| 1977 | — | — | 70 | #1,028 |
| 1976 | — | — | 67 | #1,013 |
| 1975 | — | — | 75 | #945 |
| 1974 | — | — | 63 | #1,037 |
| 1973 | — | — | 53 | #1,124 |
| 1972 | — | — | 89 | #851 |
| 1971 | — | — | 85 | #884 |
| 1970 | — | — | 110 | #784 |
| 1969 | — | — | 112 | #740 |
| 1968 | — | — | 109 | #720 |
| 1967 | — | — | 115 | #692 |
| 1966 | — | — | 137 | #631 |
| 1965 | — | — | 127 | #658 |
| 1964 | — | — | 189 | #576 |
| 1963 | — | — | 225 | #530 |
| 1962 | — | — | 214 | #541 |
| 1961 | — | — | 194 | #562 |
| 1960 | — | — | 204 | #551 |
| 1959 | — | — | 235 | #510 |
| 1958 | — | — | 198 | #547 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,426 | 231 | #509 |
| 1956 | — | — | 221 | #509 |
| 1955 | — | — | 207 | #510 |
| 1954 | — | — | 184 | #534 |
| 1953 | — | — | 144 | #605 |
| 1952 | — | — | 144 | #580 |
| 1951 | — | — | 144 | #577 |
| 1950 | — | — | 133 | #588 |
| 1949 | — | — | 140 | #567 |
| 1948 | — | — | 136 | #572 |
| 1947 | — | — | 126 | #606 |
| 1946 | — | — | 131 | #556 |
| 1945 | — | — | 105 | #594 |
| 1944 | — | — | 99 | #618 |
| 1943 | — | — | 101 | #634 |
| 1942 | — | — | 101 | #629 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,997 | 99 | #597 |
| 1940 | — | — | 99 | #597 |
| 1939 | — | — | 105 | #558 |
| 1938 | — | — | 94 | #613 |
| 1937 | — | — | 85 | #639 |
| 1936 | — | — | 106 | #557 |
| 1935 | — | — | 66 | #757 |
| 1934 | — | — | 109 | #566 |
| 1933 | — | — | 110 | #545 |
| 1932 | — | — | 95 | #608 |
| 1931 | — | — | 94 | #611 |
| 1930 | — | — | 84 | #681 |
| 1929 | — | — | 105 | #589 |
| 1928 | — | — | 96 | #629 |
| 1927 | — | — | 107 | #603 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,911 | 118 | #567 |
| 1925 | — | — | 118 | #573 |
| 1924 | — | — | 96 | #658 |
| 1923 | — | — | 90 | #674 |
| 1922 | — | — | 99 | #646 |
| 1921 | — | — | 85 | #707 |
| 1920 | — | — | 95 | #649 |
| 1919 | — | — | 108 | #576 |
| 1918 | — | — | 103 | #604 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,669 | 90 | #623 |
| 1916 | — | — | 79 | #662 |
| 1915 | — | — | 93 | #590 |
| 1914 | — | — | 60 | #653 |
| 1913 | — | — | 59 | #564 |
| 1912 | — | — | 44 | #623 |
| 1911 | — | — | 25 | #608 |
| 1910 | — | — | 22 | #624 |
| 1909 | — | — | 15 | #719 |
| 1908 | — | — | 19 | #589 |
| 1907 | — | — | 23 | #486 |
| 1906 | — | — | 20 | #505 |
| 1905 | — | — | 14 | #637 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #887 |
| 1903 | — | — | 15 | #579 |
| 1902 | — | — | 11 | #690 |
| 1901 | — | — | 12 | #602 |
| 1900 | — | — | 16 | #627 |
| 1899 | — | — | 10 | #664 |
| 1898 | — | — | 17 | #508 |
| 1897 | — | — | 9 | #729 |
| 1896 | — | — | 18 | #484 |
| 1895 | — | — | 9 | #742 |
| 1894 | — | — | 14 | #543 |
| 1893 | — | — | 7 | #844 |
| 1892 | — | — | 8 | #803 |
| 1891 | — | — | 9 | #646 |
| 1890 | — | — | 17 | #437 |
| 1889 | — | — | 12 | #554 |
| 1888 | — | — | 15 | #506 |
| 1887 | — | — | 17 | #409 |
| 1886 | — | — | 6 | #853 |
| 1885 | — | — | 14 | #501 |
| 1884 | — | — | 13 | #521 |
| 1883 | — | — | 9 | #651 |
| 1882 | — | — | 14 | #494 |
| 1881 | — | — | 14 | #464 |
| 1880 | — | — | 15 | #465 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).