Benett is a variant of Bennett, from Benedict, meaning blessed.
Benett is a streamlined variant of Bennett, itself the medieval English vernacular form of the Latin Benedictus, meaning "the blessed one." The root benedictus — from bene (well) and dictus (spoken) — originally described someone upon whom good words had been spoken, someone consecrated through language. It is, in a sense, a name that means to be the subject of a blessing.
The name's cultural anchor is Saint Benedict of Nursia (circa 480–547 AD), the Italian monk who authored the Rule of Benedict and effectively organized Western monasticism. His influence was so profound that he is called the patron saint of Europe, and Benedictine monasteries shaped the intellectual and agricultural landscape of the medieval world for centuries. The name Bennett became enormously common in medieval England — it was one of the most popular masculine given names of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries — before receding into surname territory during the modern era.
It regained traction as a first name through the British and American vogue for surname-names in the late twentieth century. The spelling Benett trims the double-t, giving the name a sleeker silhouette on the page. It retains all the warmth and historical gravitas of its longer form while feeling slightly more European and spare — closer to French naming aesthetics, where understatement is itself a kind of elegance. It is a name for someone who carries old roots with contemporary ease.