Boy · English pet form of a Hebrew name
Bennie
Say it: BEN-ee
Meaning
A pet form of Benjamin, from Hebrew Binyamin 'son of the right hand' or 'son of the south'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used in the US from the 1880s to the 1950s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1930s
In the United States
- 62,214 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1935, about 1 in 1,100 boys
- 67 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Benny
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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