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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.
Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and his wife, Meredith, chose the name for their first son, Bennett, born in May 2024. 30 Rock actress Jane Krakowski and Robert Godley chose it for their son, Bennett Robert Godley, born in April 2011.
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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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#323 in New Zealand (2025) · #667 in Scotland (2025) · #696 in Ireland (2025) · #735 in Austria (2025) · #834 in Sweden (2025) · #838 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,144 in Switzerland (2025) · #1,477 in England & Wales (2025) · #41 in Canada (2024).
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.
Similar names: Myles · Benson · Beau · Barrett · Roman · Elliot
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