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Bente

Girls' name

Contraction of Benedikte

Bente has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1961. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1961, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Bente, 1965

1 in 725,000

Bente over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bente: meaning, origin, and history

Contraction of Benedikte

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bente means

Bente is a contraction of Benedikte.

Origin, language, and formation

Bente is used in Danish and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Benedikte.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Bente between 1961 and 1965. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1961; its best national rank was #6,613 in 1965.

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 Bente?

Bente had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1965
1 in 725,000
5 of 3,625,243 births
Among girls only
1 in 353,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1965
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
502,567 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bente sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1965 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 502,567 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bente. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bentes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bente was born before 1961 — so the typical Bente is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
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1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Bente 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1961 (5)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,613
1965

Spellings of Bente

Bente is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 63.2% against Bente'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.

Bente around the world

Where Bente 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 & Wales
    2004–2004
    #4,598
    in 2004
  • Norway
    1880–2011
    #562
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1966–1974
    #683
    in 1974

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bente by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,613
1965
Peak year
1961
5 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
1965
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bente

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

BenaeBeneeBensonBenetBenneBendaBeneBenaiahBenniSonteBenicaBentonTanteBenikaKinteJanteBennetBeniBentleaBenjiBenitoBenjieCanteBenesha

Sibling names for Bente

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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