Bentley
#1,467 for girls in 2025, 146 births · #215 for boys in 2025, 1,649 births
Given to boys 94.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 5,895 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 7 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 60,027since 1890
Bentley over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,467 | 146 | #215 | 1,649 |
| 2024 | #1,698 | 120 | #201 | 1,782 |
| 2023 | #1,500 | 144 | #186 | 1,922 |
| 2022 | #1,621 | 130 | #172 | 2,197 |
| 2021 | #1,562 | 134 | #150 | 2,522 |
| 2020 | #1,743 | 115 | #141 | 2,590 |
| 2019 | #1,452 | 152 | #130 | 2,983 |
| 2018 | #1,512 | 144 | #121 | 3,279 |
| 2017 | #1,478 | 151 | #101 | 3,841 |
| 2016 | #1,496 | 152 | #100 | 4,073 |
| 2015 | #1,297 | 185 | #92 | 4,342 |
| 2014 | #1,326 | 178 | #89 | 4,785 |
| 2013 | #1,126 | 215 | #81 | 5,395 |
| 2012 | #1,018 | 248 | #75 | 5,895 |
| 2011 | #905 | 288 | #75 | 5,587 |
| 2010 | #1,063 | 233 | #100 | 3,776 |
| 2009 | #1,561 | 144 | #514 | 522 |
| 2008 | #2,157 | 93 | #936 | 217 |
| 2007 | #2,348 | 81 | #996 | 195 |
| 2006 | #2,438 | 76 | #1,054 | 170 |
| 2005 | #2,902 | 56 | #1,216 | 130 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 | #1,404 | 101 |
| 2003 | #3,731 | 37 | #1,561 | 81 |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 | #1,682 | 70 |
| 2001 | #3,368 | 40 | #1,600 | 74 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 | #2,425 | 39 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | #2,162 | 43 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #2,651 | 31 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | #2,396 | 34 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #2,500 | 30 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #2,697 | 26 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #2,606 | 26 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #2,553 | 26 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #2,068 | 34 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #2,035 | 31 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #2,169 | 27 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #2,161 | 26 |
| 1985 | — | #1,834 | 32 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,613 | 18 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,408 | 20 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,890 | 29 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,569 | 18 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,284 | 22 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,157 | 23 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,205 | 21 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,665 | 16 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,113 | 22 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,246 | 11 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,277 | 18 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,405 | 16 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,243 | 17 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,052 | 20 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,743 | 25 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,680 | 24 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,731 | 21 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,476 | 27 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,345 | 32 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,429 | 29 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,070 | 50 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,195 | 42 | |
| 1962 | — | #926 | 67 | |
| 1961 | — | #950 | 65 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,178 | 44 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,141 | 46 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,204 | 41 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,631 | 10 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,886 | 18 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,219 | 13 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,956 | 16 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,038 | 15 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,856 | 17 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,662 | 9 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,438 | 10 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,027 | 14 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,916 | 16 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,813 | 16 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,393 | 9 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,890 | 14 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,405 | 10 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,629 | 19 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,532 | 20 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,894 | 14 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,288 | 10 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,964 | 13 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,246 | 11 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,393 | 10 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,905 | 14 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,465 | 10 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,864 | 8 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,964 | 15 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,199 | 13 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,357 | 7 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,959 | 17 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,846 | 18 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,012 | 16 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,043 | 16 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,446 | 12 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,347 | 13 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,152 | 15 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,602 | 11 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,152 | 14 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,165 | 14 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,091 | 14 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,949 | 15 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | #1,190 | 9 | |
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| 1890 | — | #884 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Bentley! It came in at #884, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1891–1910, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Bentley
- 14 spots since 2024 (#201 → #215)
- 74 spots since 2020 (#141 → #215)
- 123 spots since 2015 (#92 → #215)
- Biggest jump: 422 spots in 2009 (#936 → #514)
- Biggest drop: 269 spots in 1963 (#926 → #1,195)
- Debuted 1890
- Peaked 2012 at #75 (5,895 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 7 yrs · run 2010–2016
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 322 boys born in 2012 were named Bentley (0.31%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,036 boys born in 2025 (0.10%)
- 73.2% of all boys named Bentley (43,956) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | #884 (1890) | #884 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 83 | #1,190 (1911) | #2,337 |
| 1920s | 138 | #1,846 (1926) | #2,296 |
| 1930s | 108 | #1,905 (1933) | #2,325 |
| 1940s | 139 | #1,532 (1941) | #2,052 |
| 1950s | 195 | #1,141 (1959) | #2,003 |
| 1960s | 401 | #926 (1962) | #1,298 |
| 1970s | 189 | #1,743 (1970) | #2,311 |
| 1980s | 257 | #1,834 (1985) | #2,203 |
| 1990s | 294 | #2,162 (1999) | #2,583 |
| 2000s | 1,599 | #514 (2009) | #1,339 |
| 2010s | 43,956 | #75 (2012) | #96 |
| 2020s | 12,662 | #141 (2020) | #178 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bentley in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 12,616 of them was named Bentley, which outranked 90.9% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,612Irie131
- #1,612Laynie131
- #1,612Paulette131
- #1,621Bentley130
- #1,621Alessi130
- #1,621Camden130
- #1,621Delia130
- #1,638Aryana129
- #1,638Eisley129
- #1,638Harlem129
Tied with 16 names at #1,621; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 795 of them was named Bentley, which outranked 98.8% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.