Bently

Where Bently comes from

Bently hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,392 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2011
    Peak, #574
    436 babies named Bently — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,188.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

No widely known Bently turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.