Brent
Last seen for girls in 1996 at #13,518 · #1,509 for boys in 2025, 116 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1971 · 4,053 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 18 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 139,799since 1885
Brent over time
Rank among boys' names. 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 | — | #1,509 | 116 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,650 | 102 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,449 | 125 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,353 | 138 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,240 | 154 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,262 | 145 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,094 | 182 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,175 | 163 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,007 | 201 | |
| 2016 | — | #973 | 211 | |
| 2015 | — | #873 | 254 | |
| 2014 | — | #849 | 263 | |
| 2013 | — | #777 | 289 | |
| 2012 | — | #731 | 318 | |
| 2011 | — | #782 | 287 | |
| 2010 | — | #655 | 368 | |
| 2009 | — | #626 | 399 | |
| 2008 | — | #559 | 471 | |
| 2007 | — | #505 | 522 | |
| 2006 | — | #485 | 544 | |
| 2005 | — | #454 | 562 | |
| 2004 | — | #404 | 646 | |
| 2003 | — | #382 | 685 | |
| 2002 | — | #362 | 727 | |
| 2001 | — | #330 | 847 | |
| 2000 | — | #319 | 900 | |
| 1999 | — | #279 | 1,055 | |
| 1998 | — | #249 | 1,202 | |
| 1997 | — | #241 | 1,254 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #226 | 1,337 |
| 1995 | — | #194 | 1,586 | |
| 1994 | — | #188 | 1,630 | |
| 1993 | — | #178 | 1,801 | |
| 1992 | — | #160 | 1,958 | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #146 | 2,193 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | #127 | 2,608 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | #118 | 2,748 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | #107 | 2,869 |
| 1987 | #3,031 | 31 | #103 | 2,835 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 | #94 | 3,061 |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 | #89 | 3,321 |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 | #89 | 3,186 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | #94 | 3,030 |
| 1982 | #3,344 | 25 | #91 | 3,321 |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 | #88 | 3,371 |
| 1980 | #3,215 | 26 | #84 | 3,537 |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 | #84 | 3,455 |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 | #87 | 3,181 |
| 1977 | #3,612 | 20 | #85 | 3,423 |
| 1976 | #3,407 | 20 | #78 | 3,405 |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 | #79 | 3,364 |
| 1974 | #2,835 | 25 | #76 | 3,413 |
| 1973 | #3,635 | 17 | #80 | 3,287 |
| 1972 | #2,976 | 22 | #77 | 3,530 |
| 1971 | #3,266 | 20 | #73 | 4,053 |
| 1970 | #2,395 | 31 | #74 | 4,269 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 | #92 | 3,355 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | #102 | 2,919 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | #108 | 2,861 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | #114 | 2,689 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 | #131 | 2,408 |
| 1964 | — | #125 | 2,745 | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | #125 | 2,815 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | #139 | 2,558 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | #137 | 2,553 |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 | #154 | 2,261 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | #151 | 2,280 |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | #159 | 2,072 |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 | #174 | 1,779 |
| 1956 | — | #191 | 1,457 | |
| 1955 | — | #193 | 1,382 | |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 | #202 | 1,232 |
| 1953 | — | #201 | 1,202 | |
| 1952 | — | #205 | 1,081 | |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | #211 | 942 |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | #212 | 908 |
| 1949 | — | #240 | 738 | |
| 1948 | — | #256 | 645 | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | #257 | 669 |
| 1946 | — | #287 | 506 | |
| 1945 | — | #362 | 269 | |
| 1944 | — | #336 | 315 | |
| 1943 | — | #328 | 350 | |
| 1942 | — | #343 | 315 | |
| 1941 | — | #340 | 289 | |
| 1940 | — | #336 | 288 | |
| 1939 | — | #418 | 185 | |
| 1938 | — | #544 | 114 | |
| 1937 | — | #609 | 91 | |
| 1936 | — | #747 | 65 | |
| 1935 | — | #881 | 51 | |
| 1934 | — | #942 | 45 | |
| 1933 | — | #926 | 46 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,198 | 32 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,128 | 36 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,330 | 29 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,480 | 24 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,760 | 19 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,468 | 26 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,661 | 21 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,806 | 19 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,894 | 18 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,123 | 15 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,240 | 14 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,703 | 21 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,642 | 22 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,624 | 21 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,767 | 19 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,815 | 17 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,698 | 18 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,707 | 17 | |
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,885 | 8 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
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| 1896 | — | #1,101 | 5 | |
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
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| 1892 | — | — | ||
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| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | #936 | 5 | |
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Brent! It came in at #936, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1885–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brent
- 141 spots since 2024 (#1,650 → #1,509)
- 247 spots since 2020 (#1,262 → #1,509)
- 636 spots since 2015 (#873 → #1,509)
- Biggest jump: 272 spots in 1933 (#1,198 → #926)
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 2011 (#655 → #782)
- Debuted 1885
- Peaked 1971 at #73 (4,053 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 18 yrs · run 1969–1986
- Top 1,000: 85 yrs · run 1933–2016
- Highest: 1 in 435 boys born in 1970 were named Brent (0.23%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,725 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #73 in 1971, was only 1 in 436 (0.23%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.3% of all boys named Brent (35,380) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #936 (1885) | #936 |
| 1890s | 5 | #1,101 (1896) | #1,101 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 111 | #1,589 (1910) | #1,823 |
| 1920s | 199 | #1,468 (1927) | #1,778 |
| 1930s | 694 | #418 (1939) | #872 |
| 1940s | 4,384 | #240 (1949) | #309 |
| 1950s | 14,335 | #151 (1959) | #190 |
| 1960s | 27,164 | #92 (1969) | #123 |
| 1970s | 35,380 | #73 (1971) | #79 |
| 1980s | 31,279 | #84 (1980) | #96 |
| 1990s | 16,624 | #127 (1990) | #199 |
| 2000s | 6,303 | #319 (2000) | #443 |
| 2010s | 2,536 | #655 (2010) | #892 |
| 2020s | 780 | #1,240 (2021) | #1,411 |
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.
Brent in 1957
Top girls' names in 1957
Top boys' names in 1957
More about 1957
girls
2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 255,606 of them was named Brent, which outranked 35.3% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,202Yevonne9
- #4,202Zeta9
- #4,202Zoann9
- #4,536Brent8
- #4,536Aggie8
- #4,536Albertine8
- #4,536Aletta8
- #4,918Adah7
- #4,918Adline7
- #4,918Adonica7
Tied with 381 names at #4,536; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,157,236 boys got a published name in 1957; 1 in 1,213 of them was named Brent, which outranked 96.2% of the 4,552 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.