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Benno

#9,831 in 2025Boys' name

A Canadian hundred-dollar note, through Benjamin

Benno has been given to 306 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #9,831 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Benno, 2025

1 in 474,000

Benno over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Benno: meaning, origin, and history

A Canadian hundred-dollar note, through Benjamin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Benno means

Benno belongs to the name family reached through Benno → Benjamin. Its meaning is “A Canadian hundred-dollar note”.

Origin, language, and formation

Benno is used in English and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benjamin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 306 boys were recorded with the name Benno between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1916; its best national rank was #2,275 in 1916.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,764 in 2020 to #9,831 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,714 in 2015 to #9,831 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Benno?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,831
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Benno sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Benno. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bennos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Benno was born before 1942 — so the typical Benno is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
142
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 21.2% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Benno 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
+204
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+933
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,117
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.3%
Peak was 1916 (12)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,275
1916

Spellings of Benno

Benno is not the most common spelling — Ben is, with 20.5% against Benno's 0.07%.

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.

Where Benno is used

Across 1910–2025, Benno was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Benno has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Benno around the world

Where Benno 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.

  • South Australia
    1977–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Benno by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,831
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 933
Best rank ever
#2,275
1916
Peak year
1916
12 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
306
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Benno

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BenjyBenceBentoBenettBenoitBensenBensynBeniBeniahBenjieBenuelBenjiBennBenjamynBenenBenniBennetBengieBenyBenzionMennoBentlyBentzionGianno

Sibling names for Benno

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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