# Benne (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/benne/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 660 |
| US rank (2010) | 34,353 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 467,796 people |
| Change since 2000 | -11.9% (749 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from North German Benne, a variant of the surname Benn. Borrowed also from French Benne, a metonymic occupational surname for the maker or driver of a cart.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Benne in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 4.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Similar surnames

Bean, Beane, Benn, Bonney, Beene, Ben, Benny, Behn, Beno, Been, Bunney, Bena.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.