Benni

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A few things about Benni you might not know, from US birth records and Wikipedia. Handy for convincing a partner, or a grandparent.

⭐ Famous Benni

Benni McCarthy

South African association football player (born 1977)

Choose Benni and your child shares a first name with Benni McCarthy, a South African association football player. A ready-made answer when someone asks “Benni, like who?” Benni McCarthy's Wikipedia article is available in 46 languages, a good sign of just how widely known they are.

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Photo: East Ham Bull, CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab), via Wikimedia Commons

• 👶How commonAbout 1 in every 76,336 baby girls born in the US in 2025 was named Benni, 21 babies in all. In a typical school of 500 kids, your Benni would very likely be the only one.
• 📜HistoryBenni first shows up in US birth records in 2013, the first year at least 5 babies got it. That makes it a fairly new name, younger than many of today's parents.
• 🏆Best yearBenni is at its all-time high right now: #5,722 in 2025.
• ✨New on the sceneBenni wasn't given to enough babies to be counted in 2000. It only took off after 2013.
• 🚀TrendBenni has climbed 4,528 places in the US rankings over the last five years and now sits at #5,722. Fast risers like this often keep climbing, so expect to hear it more.
• ⚖️Boy or girlBenni is given to both boys and girls: 75% of the 28 babies named Benni in 2025 were girls. That makes it one of the names that truly works for either.

About the name Benni

Benni is a girl name of Latin origin. It has 5 letters and 2 syllables, starting with B and ending in “-nni”. US birth records list Benni for girls from 2013 to 2025, in 11 of those 13 years. Its best year was 2025, when it ranked #5,722 among girl names. In 2025 it ranked #5,722, with 21 babies.

Origin:Latin names