Bennie
About 62,689 American babies have been named Bennie since 1880, most of them around 1929. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,516th. About 23,000 Bennies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bennie boys named Bennie
Girls and boys called Bennie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 9,936 girls and 52,753 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 61 to 53.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 146 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 62,689
- Estimated living today
- 23,000
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1929
- Best rank
- 158th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,516th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 9,936 / 52,753
How old the living Bennies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 62,689 babies given the name since 1880, about 23,000 are alive — 37 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 13,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Bennies
- Bennie Thompson (born 1948)American politician
- Bennie Muller (1938–2024)Dutch footballer
- Bennie Green (1923–1977)American jazz trombonist
- Bennie Moten (1894–1935)American musician
- Bennie G. Adkins (1934–2020)United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
People named Bennie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bennie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bennie is most concentrated in Mississippi (6.6×), Arkansas (4.3×), South Carolina (4.0×), Alabama (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1929
The most popular boys’ names the year Bennie peaked:
Bennie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Bennie | 113 | 1,610th |
| England and Wales girls | Bennie | 5 | 4,192nd |
| France girls | Bennie | 5 | 5,288th |
| Scotland boys | Bennie | 4 | 590th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Bennie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.