Bentley

Where Bentley comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Bentley.

  • Vowel-ended
Bentley through the years
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #884 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Bentley Little born
    American writer
  3. 1967
    Bentley Mitchum born
    American actor and director
  4. 2012
    Peak, #75
    5,895 babies named Bentley, the most in any year.
  5. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #141.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Bentley Little · American writer, born 1960
  • Bentley Mitchum · American actor and director, born 1967
  • Bentley Dean · movie director, producer & cinematographer, born 2000
  • Bentley Bahn · German footballer, born 1992
  • Bentley Layton · American theologian and philologist, 1941–2025

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.