What about this for a no frills girls’ name?

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Benett
Occasionally posters have asked about no frills name with some history to it and I’ve seen Bennett was quite popular in the late Middle Ages, presumably as a feminine version of Benjamin and Benedict.
I rather like it and it may suit parents who favour surnamey first names. (Though the surname Bennett would have been derived from the given name to start with!)

Me too

as illogical as that is

Isn't it more a boy's name? Ben Miller is a Bennett.

My first thought was JonBenet Ramsey.

Benett to me sounds like an old bald man.

What about Rachet?

No, it's a very ugly name to my ears

I like it. But what's more important is if you do.

Flange is a no frills name

I just hear my mum's voice exclaiming 'Gordon Bennett!' if something has gone mildly wrong 😂

Sounds like the name for a preppy WASPy girl. Her brothers would be called Brooks and Banks.

I really like it!

Binnitt

Phalangea has the same vibe

Fanjo?

Sorry, Bennet is awful. Use an actual name.

Surely the -ett ending is a frill, though? I'd think no-frills girls' first names would be, for example: Ann, Eve, Grace, Faith, Jane, Jean, Joan, Rose, Ruth, etc.

I fail to see charms in Bennett

I like it. But then I like unisex, surnames as first names. But then I don't like to follow the crowd.
I've two boys with names like this.
I've a DD who would have been named along similar lines but she has two brothers on her dads side who have very traditional British names.
You chose what you like. Better than being one of six Evie's in her year surely?

Too awkward for your child to cope with this name.

I wouldn't but only for the reason that it's the surname of a relative who treated my mum appallingly at the end of her life.

I think there is no frills and there is very masculine sounding - and this feels like the latter.

. Charlie can be a girls' name, but it has a pretty feel as well as the boys' name associations. It can be the perfume or Charlie Brown-cool. Bennet sounds like a surname and that's it.

But surely for Bennett to be at all frilly it would need to be Benette, with the emphasis on the second syllable?

But then I'd never think Bernadette as being frilly.

Even in the middle ages, Benet or Benett (English short form of Benedict) was usually a male name, as on the first list here:
www.themiddleages.net/people/names.html

The names on that site are taken from real documents - unlike those on some baby name sites. (That's a general comment, not directed to the OP.)
Medieval spelling was often flexible - the 'tt' has no significance.

Also, most people could not read or write their own names. In formal documents, written in Latin, local language names were sometimes 'latinised' by scribes. So an English-speaking girl known as Joan might become 'Johanna' or 'Joanna' in formal documents; her mother Julian (or Gillian) became 'Juliana' etc etc etc

Of course, a medieval girl might have been named Benet ( perhaps after a deceased friend/comrade, or to please a rich relative). But it was not usual.

It isn’t a French name so is pronounced in the ordinary English way.
Jon-Benet’s parents made up her name as a one off.
Wasn’t in the past regarded as a boys’ name , at leastI haven’t found it as such in records, though I suppose if it was a family name that would be different.

My sources are random documents perused during genealogical research, though Bennet/t was found more often in families residing in Kent. I don’t generally look at online lists of names as these are prone to error

I've only heard of it as a surname or an American boy's name. To me it reads as masculine rather than as a "no frills" feminine name. I would also ask how you feel about Ben or Benny as nicknames, because that's what people will probably use.