How popular is the name Benita?

Benita ranks 1,175th among girls' names in US records, with 13,658 births since 1889. Over the past decade it accounts for 138.

Is Benita a unisex name?

No. Benita is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1961, when 480 children were given the name. It has been in use for 136 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,175 of girl names

Pronounced B AH0 N IY1 T AH0 (ARPABET)

Benita is a girls' name, and first appears in 1889. It has been given to 13,658 children — the 1,175th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 138 births across the past decade, against a peak of 480 in a single year. That peak was in 1961.

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Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Benita?: Benita ranks 1,175th among girls' names in US records, with 13,658 births since 1889. Over the past decade it accounts for 138.
Is Benita a unisex name?: No. Benita is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Benita most popular?: 1961, when 480 children were given the name. It has been in use for 136 years and is still recorded as of 2024.