Bennie is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Bennie is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Bennie. In the SmartGenius ranking, Bennie is #2,328 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 53,319 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Bennie. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Bennie annualy. This means that there have been boys named Bennie who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Bennie have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Bennie even more than any other time: in 1904, it holds its present record at rank #105 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Bennie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Bennie has never been ranked higher than #105. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,621 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 90 boys named Bennie were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Bennie were born, there have been 105 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Bennie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Bennie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bennie, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Elephant
Nut
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bennie
Bennie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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N
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
E
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bennie sounds like this:
