Bennie

Where Bennie comes from

Diminutives + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bennie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #334 among boys — 26 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1903
    Peak, #130
    144 babies named Bennie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1938
    Bennie Muller born
    Dutch footballer
  4. 1948
    Bennie Thompson born
    American politician
  5. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,629.
  6. 2025
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Benjamin.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Bernice and Bernadette.
Namesakes
  • Bennie Thompson · American politician, born 1948
  • Bennie Muller · Dutch footballer, 1938–2024
  • Bennie Green · American jazz trombonist, 1923–1977
  • Bennie Moten · American musician, 1894–1935
  • Bennie G. Adkins · United States Army Medal of Honor recipient, 1934–2020

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.