Bennett
Top 1000
About Bennett
Bennett is Ben with a bow tie, kind of a cross between Benjamin and Beckett. It's been trending up on the popularity charts in recent years, and its choice by The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Jane Krakowski could shoot it even higher.
Bennett Cerf was an eminent publisher--one of the founders of Random House--and renowned punster.
Bennett is a popular surname, and has many noteworthy bearers, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice family (with one 't') to indomitable singer Tony. Bennett has been used as a surname in England since the early thirteenth century.
Pronounced BEN-it.
As of October 2026, Bennett ranked #40 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #69.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #166 | 2,550 | 1,327.5 |
| 2015 | #154 | 2,714 | 1,415.9 |
| 2016 | #140 | 2,942 | 1,550.3 |
| 2017 | #123 | 3,180 | 1,718 |
| 2018 | #120 | 3,301 | 1,817.6 |
| 2019 | #108 | 3,530 | 1,967.4 |
| 2020 | #101 | 3,601 | 2,086.2 |
| 2021 | #90 | 3,938 | 2,251 |
| 2022 | #83 | 4,103 | 2,349.9 |
| 2023 | #74 | 4,420 | 2,583.9 |
| 2024 | #60 | 5,095 | 2,957.2 |
| 2025 | #40 | 6,268 | 3,669.6 |
World rankings
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Bennett on lists
Famous Bennetts
- Bennett Joseph "Ben" Savage
American actor
- Bennett Miller
American film director
- Bennett Alfred Cerf
American publisher and TV personality
- (William) Bennett Campbell
Canadian politician, 24th Premier of Prince Edward Island
- Bennett "Ben" Cohen
American co,founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
- Bennett McVey Stewart
U.S. Congressman from Illinois
- Bennett Lester "Benny" Carter
American jazz musician
- Bennett C. Greenspan
American genetics entrepreneur
- Bennett Nāmākēhā
Hawaiian high chief, husband of Queen Kapi'olani
- Bennett Derwin Fisher (b. 2010)
son of singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson and Matt Fisher
- Bennett Robert Godley (b. 2011)
son of actress Jane Krakowski and designer Robert Godley
- Bennett Armistead Schauer (b. 2014)
son of actress Laura Linney
- Parson Bennett Ackley (b. 2015)
son of baseball player Dustin Ackley
Bennett in pop culture
- Bennett
character in novel "The One Apart" by author Justine Avery
- Bennett Halverson
female character on TV's Dollhouse