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Boy's name · #40 in the US (2025) · Trending
96% boys · 4% girls — Bennett is also given to girls: 290 in 2025, about 1 in 25 in recent years. Bennett →
Bennett is climbing: on the charts since 1880, it reached #40 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 6,300 boys given the name last year. Roughly 73,000 have carried it all-time. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#33 in Canada (2025) · #323 in New Zealand (2025) · #647 in Scotland (2025) · #676 in Ireland (2025) · #735 in Austria (2025) · #834 in Sweden (2025) · #838 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,144 in Switzerland (2025) · #1,466 in England & Wales (2025) · #3,137 in Italy (2024) · #3,640 in France (2025) · #395 in N. Ireland (2023).
It is also an American family name — about 248,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 115 notable people named Bennett:
Sports figures appear 1.36× more often than among typical names — e.g. Bennett Mnguni, South African footballer (born 1974).
Similar names: Cooper · Benson · Brooks · Beckett · Emmett · Hudson
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