# Bennett (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bennett/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbɛnət/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Benett, Bennet |
| US babies named this | 74,854 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 72,514 / 2,340 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 227, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 67 | 2,643 |
| 2012 | 60 | 2,870 |
| 2013 | 64 | 2,707 |
| 2014 | 113 | 1,804 |
| 2015 | 104 | 1,940 |
| 2016 | 88 | 2,192 |
| 2017 | 106 | 1,905 |
| 2018 | 119 | 1,730 |
| 2019 | 118 | 1,747 |
| 2020 | 103 | 1,872 |
| 2021 | 134 | 1,565 |
| 2022 | 112 | 1,821 |
| 2023 | 146 | 1,488 |
| 2024 | 234 | 1,065 |
| 2025 | 290 | 912 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,492 | 241 |
| 2012 | 1,911 | 201 |
| 2013 | 2,075 | 194 |
| 2014 | 2,550 | 166 |
| 2015 | 2,714 | 154 |
| 2016 | 2,942 | 140 |
| 2017 | 3,180 | 123 |
| 2018 | 3,301 | 120 |
| 2019 | 3,531 | 108 |
| 2020 | 3,601 | 101 |
| 2021 | 3,939 | 90 |
| 2022 | 4,105 | 83 |
| 2023 | 4,422 | 74 |
| 2024 | 5,109 | 60 |
| 2025 | 6,268 | 40 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2011 | 7 | 2,613 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,586 |
| 2016 | 16 | 1,570 |
| 2017 | 16 | 1,546 |
| 2018 | 17 | 1,455 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,506 |
| 2020 | 15 | 1,548 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,595 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2,165 |
| 2023 | 15 | 1,610 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,402 |
| 2025 | 18 | 1,466 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 貝內特 /贝内特
- Hebrew: בנט
- Russian: Бе́ннетт, Бе́нет

## People named Bennett

- Bennett Miller, film director, film producer
- John Bennett Perry, American actor
- Bennett Champ Clark, American judge and politician (1890–1954)
- Bennett Foddy, Australian video game developer and philosopher
- Benny Carter, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (190
- Ben Savage, American actor
- Ben Rappaport, American actor
- Ben Keith, American musician (1937–2010)
- Austin Tice, American journalist and war correspondent (born 1981)
- Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (1931-1991)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.