Bently
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to boys 96.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 436 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,443since 1915
Bently over time
Rank among boys' names. Bently has never cracked the top 500 here.
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 | — | #5,045 | 19 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,104 | 39 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,002 | 27 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2021 | — | #3,121 | 38 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,728 | 45 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,129 | 67 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,029 | 71 | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #1,829 | 81 |
| 2016 | — | #1,450 | 119 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,271 | 141 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,188 | 155 | |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #897 | 232 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #637 | 376 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #574 | 436 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 | #667 | 359 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #2,203 | 60 |
| 2008 | — | #5,767 | 15 | |
| 2007 | — | #7,590 | 10 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
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| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
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| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,364 | 12 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,033 | 8 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bently! It came in at #3,392, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1926, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Bently
- 1,941 spots since 2024 (#3,104 → #5,045)
- 2,317 spots since 2020 (#2,728 → #5,045)
- 3,774 spots since 2015 (#1,271 → #5,045)
- Biggest jump: 1,536 spots in 2010 (#2,203 → #667)
- Biggest drop: 291 spots in 2014 (#897 → #1,188)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2011 at #574 (436 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2010–2013
- Highest: 1 in 4,356 boys born in 2011 were named Bently (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 83.4% of all boys named Bently (2,037) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #3,392 (1915) | #3,392 |
| 1920s | 6 | #3,780 (1927) | #3,780 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 13 | #3,033 (1958) | #3,511 |
| 1960s | 37 | #2,364 (1962) | #3,355 |
| 1970s | 5 | #4,986 (1972) | #4,986 |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,523 (1985) | #6,523 |
| 1990s | 6 | #7,971 (1996) | #7,971 |
| 2000s | 116 | #2,203 (2009) | #7,208 |
| 2010s | 2,037 | #574 (2011) | #1,267 |
| 2020s | 212 | #2,728 (2020) | #3,479 |
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.
Bently in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 215,808 of them was named Bently, which outranked 37.0% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,689Zyniah9
- #10,689Zyria9
- #10,689Zyva9
- #11,615Bently8
- #11,615Aadrika8
- #11,615Aaiza8
- #11,615Aaleeyah8
- #12,713Aalaiyah7
- #12,713Aanshi7
- #12,713Aaradhana7
Tied with 1,097 names at #11,615; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 22,851 of them was named Bently, which outranked 87.2% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,820Wilmer82
- #1,820Zackery82
- #1,820Zaine82
- #1,829Bently81
- #1,829Cristofer81
- #1,829Dave81
- #1,829Devyn81
- #1,844Adnan80
- #1,844Breck80
- #1,844Izaac80
Tied with 14 names at #1,829; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.