Benny

Where Benny comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Benny.

  • Vowel-ended
Benny through the years
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #943 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Peak, #172
    864 babies named Benny, its best rank.
  3. 1946
    Benny Andersson born
    Swedish musician and composer
  4. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #373.
  5. 1985
    Benny Feilhaber born
    American soccer player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Benny Andersson · Swedish musician and composer, born 1946
  • Benny Feilhaber · American soccer player, born 1985
  • Benny Golson · American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger, 1929–2024
  • Benny Hinn · American-Canadian evangelist, born 1952
  • Benny Morris · Israeli historian, born 1948

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.