Brentley
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · #2,006 for boys in 2025, 75 births
Given to boys 93.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 413 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,244since 1957
Brentley 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 | #9,457 | 10 | #2,006 | 75 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #1,776 | 92 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #1,420 | 128 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #1,516 | 119 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #1,253 | 152 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #1,095 | 181 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | #956 | 224 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #906 | 238 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #815 | 278 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | #748 | 326 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 | #642 | 411 |
| 2014 | #5,625 | 23 | #636 | 413 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #652 | 372 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #751 | 304 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #1,159 | 154 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #2,037 | 67 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | #4,278 | 23 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #5,249 | 17 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #4,865 | 18 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | — | #4,005 | 22 | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,297 | 13 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,035 | 13 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,911 | 16 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,501 | 18 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,920 | 15 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,325 | 18 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #3,166 | 19 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #2,068 | 34 |
| 1988 | — | #2,367 | 25 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,725 | 19 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,005 | 16 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,070 | 15 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,701 | 11 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,518 | 19 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,357 | 12 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,070 | 13 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,601 | 16 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,078 | 12 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,549 | 15 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,013 | 11 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,158 | 18 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,813 | 12 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,621 | 13 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,132 | 14 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,854 | 9 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,364 | 12 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,538 | 11 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,423 | 12 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,290 | 7 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brentley! It came in at #3,993, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1959, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brentley
- 230 spots since 2024 (#1,776 → #2,006)
- 911 spots since 2020 (#1,095 → #2,006)
- 1,364 spots since 2015 (#642 → #2,006)
- Biggest jump: 408 spots in 2012 (#1,159 → #751)
- Biggest drop: 139 spots in 2020 (#956 → #1,095)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2014 at #636 (413 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2012–2019
- Highest: 1 in 4,651 boys born in 2014 were named Brentley (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,774 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 65.7% of all boys named Brentley (2,787) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 19 | #3,275 (1958) | #3,519 |
| 1960s | 94 | #2,132 (1966) | #2,908 |
| 1970s | 135 | #2,158 (1972) | #2,830 |
| 1980s | 169 | #2,068 (1989) | #3,118 |
| 1990s | 138 | #3,166 (1990) | #4,598 |
| 2000s | 155 | #4,005 (2004) | #5,377 |
| 2010s | 2,787 | #636 (2014) | #930 |
| 2020s | 747 | #1,095 (2020) | #1,511 |
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.
Brentley in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 148,133 of them was named Brentley, which outranked 53.5% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,701Zuriel13
- #8,701Zyair13
- #8,701Zyann13
- #9,231Brentley12
- #9,231Aamani12
- #9,231Aasiya12
- #9,231Abeer12
- #9,790Aasha11
- #9,790Abbigal11
- #9,790Abri11
Tied with 558 names at #9,231; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 28,637 of them was named Brentley, which outranked 85.7% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,010Trayvon68
- #2,010Zayan68
- #2,010Zeus68
- #2,037Brentley67
- #2,037Adair67
- #2,037Amaury67
- #2,037Brendyn67
- #2,057Bryar66
- #2,057Cedrick66
- #2,057Davi66
Tied with 19 names at #2,037; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.