Brently
Last seen for girls in 2012 at #16,869 · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to boys 98.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 121 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,424since 1960
Brently over time
Rank among boys' names. Brently has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #4,890 | 20 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,886 | 20 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,617 | 31 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,242 | 36 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,202 | 35 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,943 | 41 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,546 | 50 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,388 | 54 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,921 | 76 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,677 | 93 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,396 | 121 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,444 | 114 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #1,490 | 108 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #2,626 | 46 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #3,708 | 28 |
| 2009 | — | #5,554 | 16 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,393 | 13 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,262 | 13 | |
| 2006 | — | #9,585 | 7 | |
| 2005 | — | #8,299 | 8 | |
| 2004 | — | #11,356 | 5 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,088 | 11 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,445 | 10 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,920 | 11 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,656 | 11 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,843 | 8 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,288 | 11 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,372 | 8 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,447 | 13 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,231 | 13 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,309 | 18 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,292 | 29 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,765 | 20 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,440 | 13 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,270 | 13 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,412 | 12 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,203 | 12 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,309 | 7 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,558 | 9 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,973 | 11 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,621 | 13 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,308 | 14 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,470 | 11 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,409 | 12 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,035 | 16 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brently! It came in at #3,665, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1965, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brently
- 155 spots since 2024 (#4,890 → #5,045)
- 1,843 spots since 2020 (#3,202 → #5,045)
- 3,368 spots since 2015 (#1,677 → #5,045)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 2014 at #1,396 (121 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,875 boys born in 2014 were named Brently (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 51.3% of all boys named Brently (731) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 96 | #2,035 (1962) | #2,923 |
| 1970s | 98 | #2,621 (1970) | #3,550 |
| 1980s | 127 | #2,292 (1989) | #3,929 |
| 1990s | 109 | #3,309 (1990) | #5,392 |
| 2000s | 102 | #5,554 (2009) | #7,373 |
| 2010s | 731 | #1,396 (2014) | #2,214 |
| 2020s | 161 | #3,202 (2020) | #4,147 |
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.
Brently in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 352,211 of them was named Brently, which outranked 13.6% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,665 names at #16,869; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 17,564 of them was named Brently, which outranked 89.5% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,478Sabastian109
- #1,478Taven109
- #1,478Yariel109
- #1,490Brently108
- #1,490Braulio108
- #1,490Bryden108
- #1,490Kurt108
- #1,498Ammon107
- #1,498Aries107
- #1,498Bradlee107
Tied with 7 names at #1,490; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.