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Bennita

Bennita is a girl's name that peaked in 1958, when it was the 3,925th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1984. About 40 Bennitas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Bennita

By the numbers

Total US births
43
Estimated living today
40
Median age today
61
Peak year
1958
Best rank
3,925th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1958

How old the living Bennitas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 43 babies given the name since 1958, about 40 are alive — 89 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Names of 1958

The most popular girls’ names the year Bennita peaked:

All the names of 1958

Related names

Bennita against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.