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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 162,019 of them was named Brentley, which outranked 46.1% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,946Zyasia11
- #8,946Zylia11
- #8,946Zyon11
- #9,556Brentley10
- #9,556Aaila10
- #9,556Aalyiah10
- #9,556Aariana10
- #10,271Aaditri9
- #10,271Aafia9
- #10,271Aafiya9
Tied with 714 names at #9,556; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 18,727 of them was named Brentley, which outranked 87.6% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,767Savior93
- #1,767Scotty93
- #1,767Xavian93
- #1,776Brentley92
- #1,776Antony92
- #1,776Avir92
- #1,776Azari92
- #1,795Azir91
- #1,795Brayson91
- #1,795Cadence91
Tied with 18 names at #1,776; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.