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How popular is “Bennie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bennie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bennie” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Bennie” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Bennie” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Bennie” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Bennie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bennie” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 34 0.000168748 8 26 -53%
1881 41 0.000212779 9 32 -56%
1882 40 0.00018056 7 33 -65%
1883 27 0.000124455 6 21 -56%
1884 68 0.000279306 17 51 -50%
1885 65 0.000269873 14 51 -57%
1886 65 0.000254586 22 43 -32%
1887 58 0.000234446 10 48 -66%
1888 112 0.000373989 35 77 -38%
1889 83 0.000287251 17 66 -59%
1890 72 0.000238884 18 54 -50%
1891 96 0.000334876 21 75 -56%
1892 111 0.000331964 21 90 -62%
1893 106 0.00032593 28 78 -47%
1894 140 0.000413357 19 121 -73%
1895 108 0.000307675 26 82 -52%
1896 120 0.000335679 24 96 -60%
1897 121 0.000348746 25 96 -59%
1898 142 0.000372259 26 116 -63%
1899 116 0.000341947 22 94 -62%
1900 194 0.000430864 41 153 -58%
1901 127 0.000367252 27 100 -57%
1902 157 0.000405965 33 124 -58%
1903 181 0.000474816 37 144 -59%
1904 192 0.000475854 34 158 -65%
1905 168 0.000396299 32 136 -62%
1906 176 0.000410782 43 133 -51%
1907 190 0.00040826 45 145 -53%
1908 207 0.000423617 49 158 -53%
1909 236 0.000461637 49 187 -58%
1910 283 0.000479084 65 218 -54%
1911 299 0.000464085 72 227 -52%
1912 462 0.000467582 70 392 -70%
1913 547 0.000481044 101 446 -63%
1914 702 0.000495642 104 598 -70%
1915 799 0.000436034 136 663 -66%
1916 838 0.000433205 118 720 -72%
1917 871 0.000434035 141 730 -68%
1918 1000 0.000460594 181 819 -64%
1919 1013 0.000480039 179 834 -65%
1920 1022 0.000451684 166 856 -68%
1921 940 0.000402655 165 775 -65%
1922 1127 0.000492321 212 915 -62%
1923 964 0.000418679 192 772 -60%
1924 1072 0.000450116 199 873 -63%
1925 1151 0.000493292 254 897 -56%
1926 1072 0.000466918 207 865 -61%
1927 1071 0.000461766 220 851 -59%
1928 1058 0.000467947 226 832 -57%
1929 1215 0.000554248 256 959 -58%
1930 1120 0.000503758 204 916 -64%
1931 1044 0.000496106 222 822 -57%
1932 1121 0.000530955 238 883 -58%
1933 1033 0.000516643 218 815 -58%
1934 1041 0.000501248 228 813 -56%
1935 1175 0.000562228 241 934 -59%
1936 1101 0.000529944 213 888 -61%
1937 1098 0.000515331 213 885 -61%
1938 1083 0.000489475 211 872 -61%
1939 1065 0.000483335 188 877 -65%
1940 1040 0.000451647 195 845 -63%
1941 1040 0.000426855 202 838 -61%
1942 1099 0.000402296 216 883 -61%
1943 1086 0.000384757 236 850 -57%
1944 1036 0.000385119 216 820 -58%
1945 978 0.000368652 185 793 -62%
1946 1068 0.00033424 183 885 -66%
1947 1075 0.000298419 152 923 -72%
1948 980 0.000283851 145 835 -70%
1949 951 0.000272901 143 808 -70%
1950 879 0.000250902 121 758 -72%
1951 946 0.000256804 138 808 -71%
1952 874 0.000230121 125 749 -71%
1953 889 0.000230691 118 771 -73%
1954 844 0.000212023 98 746 -77%
1955 829 0.000206472 107 722 -74%
1956 826 0.000200338 93 733 -77%
1957 740 0.000176101 80 660 -78%
1958 713 0.000172476 75 638 -79%
1959 660 0.00015873 63 597 -81%
1960 606 0.00014589 55 551 -82%
1961 564 0.000136156 46 518 -84%
1962 564 0.000139764 51 513 -82%
1963 554 0.000139963 34 520 -88%
1964 554 0.000142504 41 513 -85%
1965 477 0.00013157 29 448 -88%
1966 471 0.000135514 28 443 -88%
1967 389 0.000114584 20 369 -90%
1968 403 0.000119287 27 376 -87%
1969 354 0.000101861 23 331 -87%
1970 375 0.000103979 25 350 -87%
1971 327 0.00009527 16 311 -90%
1972 284 0.00009036 13 271 -91%
1973 265 0.000087839 20 245 -85%
1974 251 0.000082566 6 245 -95%
1975 278 0.000092071 17 261 -88%
1976 234 0.000077118 15 219 -87%
1977 251 0.000079018 14 237 -89%
1978 251 0.000079083 5 246 -96%
1979 264 0.000079351 15 249 -89%
1980 218 0.000063289 10 208 -91%
1981 219 0.000063306 10 209 -91%
1982 206 0.000058724 7 199 -93%
1983 174 0.000050241 8 166 -91%
1984 166 0.000047581 7 159 -92%
1985 150 0.000042027 7 143 -91%
1986 162 0.000045543 162 -100%
1987 154 0.000042711 5 149 -94%
1988 151 0.000040866 6 145 -92%
1989 156 0.000040578 7 149 -91%
1990 142 0.000035927 142 -100%
1991 127 0.000032604 127 -100%
1992 105 0.000027335 105 -100%
1993 106 0.000028115 106 -100%
1994 110 0.000029589 110 -100%
1995 104 0.000028399 6 98 -88%
1996 89 0.000024402 89 -100%
1997 95 0.000026201 95 -100%
1998 74 0.000020118 74 -100%
1999 76 0.000020575 76 -100%
2000 73 0.000019313 73 -100%
2001 77 0.00002057 5 72 -87%
2002 72 0.00001926 72 -100%
2003 52 0.000013676 52 -100%
2004 70 0.00001832 70 -100%
2005 54 0.000014045 54 -100%
2006 71 0.000017947 71 -100%
2007 54 0.000013508 54 -100%
2008 54 0.000013738 54 -100%
2009 49 0.000012827 49 -100%
2010 59 0.000015964 59 -100%
2011 53 0.00001449 53 -100%
2012 50 0.000013671 6 44 -76%
2013 64 0.000017555 9 55 -72%
2014 47 0.000012681 7 40 -70%
2015 58 0.000015672 6 52 -79%
2016 60 0.000016355 12 48 -60%
2017 54 0.0000151 8 46 -70%
2018 50 0.000014221 12 38 -52%
2019 56 0.000016134 12 44 -57%
2020 69 0.000020655 15 54 -57%
2021 74 0.000021842 25 49 -32%
2022 93 0.000027489 32 61 -31%
2023 81 0.000024462 30 51 -26%
2024 80 0.000024035 27 53 -32%

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