Benny m

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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Benny f for the female version of this name.

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Ben ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Ben

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)

20 December

Further Information

In Norway, Benny is only allowed as a first name together with another male name, which is more common ^[3]

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1892 ^[2]
Norway: ca. 1940 ^[3]

Namesakes

Göran Bror Benny Andersson, member of the former Swedish band ABBA, * December 16th, 1946

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[4]		157	n.a.	8298	n.a
Sweden[5]		19	34	6664	10733
Norway[6]		43	134	125	278
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	n.a	441
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Benny.

Sources: ^{[5] [4] [6] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi