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    The surname Bennette

    A French surname, carried by 1,393 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B530

    Bennette: #19,398 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bennette #19,398, 1,393 people Bennette: #19,398 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bennette #19,398, 1,393 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bennette is more common than 88% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    A surname from French.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,393 people named Bennette in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,641 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,235.

    #19,398
    rank among US surnames
    1,393
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12.8%
    change since 2000 (was #20,087)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,390Rifkin1,394221,482
    #19,398Zaborowski1,393221,641

    Who is named Bennette

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    55% of people named Bennette identified as white (not Hispanic), 35% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 55%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 35%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.7%
    • Two or more races 3.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bennette

    Bennette has the Soundex code B530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B530.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bennette come from?
    Bennette is French in origin.
    How common is the surname Bennette?
    1,393 people in the United States had the surname Bennette in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,641 Americans. It ranked 19,398th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bennette?
    In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Bennette identified as white (not Hispanic), and 35% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Bennette getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,235 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,393 in 2010, up 13%.