Bennet

Bennet is the 9,442nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,297 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 90,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,297
Rank: 9,442nd
How common: 1 in 90,700
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From Benedict. See French Benoît, Norman Beneît.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bennet described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.4%
Black, not Hispanic 21.2%
Hispanic or Latino 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%

Notable people called Bennet

Chloe Bennet (born 1992)American actress and singer
Michael Bennet (born 1964)United States Senator from Colorado since 2009
Spencer Gordon Bennet (1893–1987)American film director and producer
Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (1618–1685)English diplomat

People named Bennet with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bennet

Also a first name

Bennet has been given to 2,176 American babies as a first name since 1910, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.