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Benny is a pet form (English) of the English, French, and German name Benjamin. Benny is also a pet form of the English name Benedict. Benny is uncommon as a baby name for boys. At the height of its usage in 1939, 0.076% of baby boys were named Benny. Its ranking then was #172. The baby name has since dropped out of favor, and is currently used on a very modest scale. In 2007, within the group of boy names directly related to Benny, the English, French, and German Benjamin was the most popular. Baby names that sound like Benny include the English Bennie, the German Benno, the Portuguese Buno, the Slavic Bane, the Dutch and English Ben, the English Benejamen, the Hebrew Binyamin, the Turkish Bünyamin, the Romanian Beniamin, and the Italian Beniamino. KEY: Pronunciation for Benny: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" Details of famous persons named Benny:
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