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

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Peak · boys
2014 · 121 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,424
since 1960

Brently over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Brently has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202013peak #1,396, 2014boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#5,04519
2024#4,89020
2023#4,88620
2022#3,61731
2021#3,24236
2020#3,20235
2019#2,94341
2018#2,54650
2017#2,38854
2016#1,92176
2015#1,67793
2014#1,396121
2013#1,444114
2012#16,8695#1,490108
2011#14,8246#2,62646
2010#13,4487#3,70828
2009#5,55416
2008#6,39313
2007#6,26213
2006#9,5857
2005#8,2998
2004#11,3565
2003#7,8318
2002#6,08811
2001#6,44510
2000#5,92011
1999#5,65611
1998#6,8438
1997#5,28811
1996#5,9829
1995#5,12411
1994#6,3728
1993#4,44713
1992#6,6707
1991#4,23113
1990#3,30918
1989#2,29229
1988#2,76520
1987#4,23910
1986#3,44013
1985#5,1477
1984#3,27013
1983#3,88410
1982#4,5938
1981#3,41212
1980#6,2505
1979#3,16813
1978#4,5547
1977#3,20312
1976#3,09512
1975#4,3097
1974#3,5589
1973#4,0547
1972#3,9637
1971#2,97311
1970#2,62113
1969#2,30814
1968#3,1078
1967#2,47011
1966#2,62710
1965#3,9305
1964#2,40912
1963#3,3187
1962#2,03516
1961#3,3567
1960#3,6656
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First appearance
1960

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
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
54 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1960
  • Peaked 2014 at #1,396 (121 births)
  • Births halved by 2017, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 15,875
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 51.3% of all boys named Brently (731) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s96#2,035 (1962)#2,923
1970s98#2,621 (1970)#3,550
1980s127#2,292 (1989)#3,929
1990s109#3,309 (1990)#5,392
2000s102#5,554 (2009)#7,373
2010s731#1,396 (2014)#2,214
2020s161#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 2013

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#1,444
114 births · 1 in 16,593 boys

Top boys' names in 2013

  1. #1Noah18,291
  2. #2Jacob18,201
  3. #3Liam18,153
  4. #4Mason17,730
  5. #5William16,669
  6. #6Ethan16,260
  7. #7Michael15,544
  8. #8Alexander14,923
  9. #9Jayden14,804
  10. #10Daniel14,326
  11. #1,444Brently114
More about 2013

boys

1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 16,593 of them was named Brently, which outranked 89.7% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Brently
  1. #1,433Lenny115
  2. #1,433Leyton115
  3. #1,433Zaidyn115
  4. #1,444Brently114
  5. #1,444Abdul114
  6. #1,444Arman114
  7. #1,444Beck114
  8. #1,459Abdullahi113
  9. #1,459Axl113
  10. #1,459Demari113

Tied with 14 names at #1,444; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2012
Risers
  1. 843Jayceon#1,050#207
  2. 636Milan#1,182#546
  3. 604Atlas#1,383#779
  4. 504Jayse#1,466#962
  5. 423Duke#1,145#722
Fallers
  1. 318Austyn#898#1,216
  2. 291Masen#723#1,014
  3. 274Jaidyn#979#1,253
  4. 267Trevon#925#1,192
  5. 260Bently#637#897

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2013