Bennie
#2,516 in the US in 2025
Bennie in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.
Bennie is given to both sexes: 52,753 male and 9,936 female births on record. The two curves rarely move together, which is why they are drawn separately rather than summed.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Bennie in New Zealand
Bennie never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | #334 | 26 |
| 1890 | #224 | 54 |
| 1900 | #142 | 153 |
| 1910 | #146 | 218 |
| 1920 | #161 | 856 |
| 1930 | #162 | 916 |
| 1940 | #175 | 845 |
| 1950 | #238 | 758 |
| 1960 | #329 | 550 |
| 1970 | #434 | 350 |
| 1980 | #602 | 208 |
| 1990 | #857 | 142 |
| 2000 | #1,609 | 73 |
| 2010 | #2,212 | 59 |
| 2020 | #2,419 | 54 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Bennie most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| Texas | 5,813 |
| Georgia | 4,618 |
| Mississippi | 3,730 |
| Alabama | 3,041 |
| North Carolina | 2,844 |
| South Carolina | 2,720 |
| Arkansas | 1,899 |
| Louisiana | 1,896 |
| Kentucky | 1,701 |
| Tennessee | 1,635 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026