Bennett

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bennett: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bennett: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #395, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#395highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2022
1999	#2943
2000	#2501
2001	#2587
2004	#1732
2005	#2418
2009	#4527
2010	#3865
2011	#2613
2013	#3822
2014	#2964
2015	#1586
2016	#1570
2017	#1546
2018	#1455
2019	#1506
2020	#1548
2021	#1595
2022	#2165
2023	#1610
2024	#1402

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 21 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2023: #395 among boys in Northern Ireland, #770 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1610 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2022 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2018–2023
Highest recorded position: #395 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2018–2023).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Bennett appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 209 births with the name.

Bennett across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Bennett's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2022 (1997)	#1402 (2024)	#1402 (2024)	21 of 28	209 (1997–2024)	19 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#416 (2018)	#395 (2023)	#395 (2023)	2 of 6	6 (2018–2023)	3 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#572 (2022)	#572 (2022)	#676 (2025)	3 of 4	12 (2022–2025)	5 (2022)

Bennett by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Bennett in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	26	5 of 10	5
2010s	101	9 of 10	11
2020sbusiest	74	5 of 10	15

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 15 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Bennett appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #395 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Bennett's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1402	19	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2165	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1595	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1548	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1455	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1546	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1570	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1586	15	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2418	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1732	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #395, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 19 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Benn · #271, 20y
Bennie · #1610, 13y
Benny · #221, 48y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kaison · #395, 19y
Marcelina · #395, 19y
Evie-Rose · #396, 22y
Ayomikun · #393, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Jameson · #395, 28y
Orhan · #395, 22y
Evie-Rose · #396, 22y
Mica · #396, 24y

Bennett was ranked #395 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Bennett and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bennett without appearing here.

Bennett moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1610 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1402 and #5119.
Shannon Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #1546 and #4812.
Aria Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2613 and #1788 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1586 and #4747.
Brent Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1586 and #4747.

Moved ahead of Bennett

Hunter Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1732 and #1878 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #2418 and #1135.
Filip Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2022 and #2337 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2943 and #1664.
Cillian Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1732 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #2418 and #1190.
Mathias Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2587 and #3134 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1732 and #1160.

Moved the opposite way to Bennett

Aria Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bennett went from #2943 to #1402 while Aria went from #2943 to #4270.
Andrea Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bennett went from #2501 to #1402 while Andrea went from #1167 to #1859.
Robyn Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bennett went from #2501 to #1402 while Robyn went from #3036 to #4270.

Moved the same way as Bennett

Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bennett went from #2943 to #1402 and Arlo from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bennett went from #2943 to #1402 and Harper from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bennett went from #2943 to #1402 and Kasper from #2425 to #529.
Leif Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bennett went from #2943 to #1402 and Leif from #2943 to #814.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #395 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bennett

Bennett at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bennett across 3 official records

Bennett by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Bennett appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bennett

Bennett and the names beside it

Bennett moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bennett

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Bennett at a glance

Bennett across 3 official records

Bennett by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Bennett appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bennett

Bennett and the names beside it

Bennett moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bennett

Moved the opposite way to Bennett

Moved the same way as Bennett