Bennett

239,397 people in the United States were counted with the surname Bennett in the 2020 census, making it the 90th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,249.

By the numbers

People: 239,397
Rank: 90th
How common: 1 in 1,249
Per 100,000: 80.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.4%
Black, not Hispanic 17.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Bennett

Naftali Bennett (born 1972)Prime Minister of Israel from 2021 to 2022
Tony Bennett (1926–2023)American singer
Jeff Bennett (born 1962)American voice actor
Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)English writer
Joan Bennett (1910–1990)American actress
Haley Bennett (born 1988)American singer and actress
Richard Bedford Bennett (1870–1947)11th Prime Minister of Canada
Manu Bennett (born 1969)New Zealand actor

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

Surnames like Bennett

Also a first name

Bennett has been given to 74,854 American babies as a first name since 1880, 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.