first name
BENNIE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 19,833 people named Bennie, 45.5% reported their origin as White, 44.8% as Black and 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino. 84.5% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Bennie peaked in 1929, when 1,215 babies got the name.
At least 62,689 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Bennie by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #323. The largest share of babies named Bennie, 31%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Bennie is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Bennie has been most common in Mississippi (6.5×), Arkansas (4.3×), and South Carolina (4×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.06×).
53,441 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Bennie
Spelled almost the same
3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Bennie, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Bennie ranks #30,247 of 156,621, with 828 people. See Bennie as a last name
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