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Bennie - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Bennie
 
 

 



[ 2 syll. ben-nie, be-nn-ie ] The boy name Bennie is also used, but less frequently, as a girl name. Its pronunciation is BEHNiy KEY. Bennie is used chiefly in the English language, and it is derived from Latin and Hebrew origins.

Bennie is a pet form of the name Benjamin (English, French, and German) in the English language.

Bennie is also a pet form of the name Benedict (English).

Bennie is uncommon as a baby name for boys. At the height of its usage in 1904, 0.114% of baby boys were given the name Bennie. Its ranking then was #134. The baby name has since dropped out of favor, and is today of very modest use. In 2007, within the group of boy names directly linked to Bennie, Benjamin (English, French, and German) was the most widely used. Bennie has predominantly been a boy name in the past century. In 1955, Bennie as a boy name outnumbered its use as a girl name by 7 times.

Baby names that sound like Bennie include Benny (English), Benno (German), Buno (Portuguese), Bane (Slavic), Ben (Dutch and English), Benejamen (English), Binyamin (Hebrew), Bünyamin (Turkish), Beniamin (Romanian), and Beniamino (Italian).

KEY: Pronunciation for Bennie: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"


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