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How popular is the name Bennett?
Births per year, rank history and how many Bennetts are alive today.
Bennett (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 1466th in 2025 and given to 18 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2024, when 19 babies were given the name, the 1402nd most popular that year. It has risen strongly over the past decade. Bennett is one spelling of a name also recorded as Benet; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Bennett you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old - or else around 21: the name has two living generations. Half of all Bennetts born in England and Wales are between 5 and 21, and there are at least 280 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Bennett - on average, only one in every 1,083 such rooms contains a Bennett.
How many babies are named Bennett each year?
Includes all spellings: Bennett, Benet. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Bennett spelling rank?
Where does the Benet spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Bennett most popular?
Bennett peaked in 2024, when 19 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Bennett?
At least 280 people named Bennett in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Bennett?
Most living Bennetts are between 5 and 21; the most common age is about 2. There is a second cluster around 21.
Is Bennett becoming more or less popular?
Rising: it has climbed strongly over the past decade.