Benni
#5,749 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Benni has been given to 140 babies in the U.S. since 2013. In 2025 it ranked #5,749 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 21 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% girls, 17% boys all-time.
Babies named Benni, 2025
1 in 158,000
Benni over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Benni over time
In 2025, Benni went to 75% girls and 25% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Benni?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 158,000
- 21 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 76,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,749
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 109,425 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Benni sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bennis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Benni was born before 2021 — so the typical Benni is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 70.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 116
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 70.7% of all recorded uses (82).
Is Benni rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +1,232
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,629
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +11,104
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (21)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.5% average annual change
Spellings of Benni
Benni is not the most common spelling — Bonnie is, with 34.2% against Benni's 0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Benni around the world
Where Benni ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2007–2024#4,271in 2024
- Ireland2025–2025#829in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Central Statistics Office. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Benni by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Benni
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Benni
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.