Bentley

#1,467 for girls in 2025, 146 births · #215 for boys in 2025, 1,649 births
Given to boys 94.4% of the time

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Peak · boys
#75
2012 · 5,895 births
Debut · boys
1890
6 births
In top 100 · boys
7 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · boys
60,027
since 1890

Bentley over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201925peak #905, 2011peak #75, 2012girlsboys
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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#1,467146#2151,649
2024#1,698120#2011,782
2023#1,500144#1861,922
2022#1,621130#1722,197
2021#1,562134#1502,522
2020#1,743115#1412,590
2019#1,452152#1302,983
2018#1,512144#1213,279
2017#1,478151#1013,841
2016#1,496152#1004,073
2015#1,297185#924,342
2014#1,326178#894,785
2013#1,126215#815,395
2012#1,018248#755,895
2011#905288#755,587
2010#1,063233#1003,776
2009#1,561144#514522
2008#2,15793#936217
2007#2,34881#996195
2006#2,43876#1,054170
2005#2,90256#1,216130
2004#3,33345#1,404101
2003#3,73137#1,56181
2002#3,65436#1,68270
2001#3,36840#1,60074
2000#4,40027#2,42539
1999#5,21920#2,16243
1998#6,07316#2,65131
1997#5,01020#2,39634
1996#5,77116#2,74727
1995#8,07910#2,50030
1994#7,60411#2,68527
1993#9,5598#2,69726
1992#6,65213#2,83424
1991#9,3368#2,60626
1990#8,5019#2,55326
1989#8,7618#2,06834
1988#5,89513#2,03531
1987#9,8256#2,16927
1986#8,5237#2,16126
1985—#1,83432
1984—#2,61318
1983—#2,40820
1982—#1,89029
1981—#2,56918
1980—#2,28422
1979—#2,15723
1978—#2,20521
1977—#2,66516
1976—#2,11322
1975—#3,24611
1974—#2,27718
1973—#2,40516
1972—#2,24317
1971—#2,05220
1970—#1,74325
1969—#1,68024
1968—#1,73121
1967—#1,47627
1966—#1,34532
1965—#1,42929
1964—#1,07050
1963—#1,19542
1962—#92667
1961—#95065
1960—#1,17844
1959—#1,14146
1958—#1,20441
1957—#2,63110
1956—#1,88618
1955—#2,21913
1954—#1,95616
1953—#2,03815
1952—#1,85617
1951—#2,6629
1950—#2,43810
1949—#3,0197
1948—#2,02714
1947—#1,91616
1946—#1,81316
1945—#2,3939
1944—#1,89014
1943—#2,40510
1942—#1,62919
1941—#1,53220
1940—#1,89414
1939—#2,28810
1938—#2,4799
1937—#2,6808
1936—#1,96413
1935—#2,24611
1934—#2,39310
1933—#1,90514
1932—#2,46510
1931—#2,8648
1930—#1,96415
1929—#2,19913
1928—#3,3577
1927—#1,95917
1926—#1,84618
1925—#2,01216
1924—#2,04316
1923—#2,44612
1922—#2,34713
1921—#2,15215
1920—#2,60211
1919—#2,15214
1918—#2,16514
1917—#2,09114
1916—#1,94915
1915—#3,3926
1914—#3,2645
1913—#2,4966
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First appearance
1890

The first year at least five boys were named Bentley! It came in at #884, and was given to 6 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1891–1910, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Bentley is popular in 1925

No state had 5 or more boys named Bentley in 1925, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Bentley
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 14 spots since 2024 (#201 → #215)
  • 74 spots since 2020 (#141 → #215)
  • 123 spots since 2015 (#92 → #215)
  • Biggest jump: 422 spots in 2009 (#936 → #514)
  • Biggest drop: 269 spots in 1963 (#926 → #1,195)
Rise & fade · boys
122 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1890
  • Peaked 2012 at #75 (5,895 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 100 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 7 yrs · run 2010–2016
  • Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2007–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 322
  • Highest: 1 in 322 boys born in 2012 were named Bentley (0.31%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,036 boys born in 2025 (0.10%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 73.2% of all boys named Bentley (43,956) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s6#884 (1890)#884
1900s0——
1910s83#1,190 (1911)#2,337
1920s138#1,846 (1926)#2,296
1930s108#1,905 (1933)#2,325
1940s139#1,532 (1941)#2,052
1950s195#1,141 (1959)#2,003
1960s401#926 (1962)#1,298
1970s189#1,743 (1970)#2,311
1980s257#1,834 (1985)#2,203
1990s294#2,162 (1999)#2,583
2000s1,599#514 (2009)#1,339
2010s43,956#75 (2012)#96
2020s12,662#141 (2020)#178

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.

Bentley in 1925

boys
#2,012
16 births · 1 in 69,745 boys

Top boys' names in 1925

  1. #1Robert60,895
  2. #2John57,195
  3. #3William53,310
  4. #4James52,680
  5. #5Charles29,580
  6. #6George26,560
  7. #7Joseph24,613
  8. #8Richard23,269
  9. #9Edward20,090
  10. #10Donald19,193
  11. #2,012Bentley16
More about 1925

boys

1,115,919 boys got a published name in 1925; 1 in 69,745 of them was named Bentley, which outranked 58.7% of the 4,867 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Bentley
  1. #1,935Worley17
  2. #1,935Wray17
  3. #1,935Xavier17
  4. #2,012Bentley16
  5. #2,012Ardis16
  6. #2,012Bartlett16
  7. #2,012Bernabe16
  8. #2,089Achille15
  9. #2,089Addie15
  10. #2,089Adolphe15

Tied with 76 names at #2,012; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1924
Risers
  1. ↑ 548Okey#1,532 → #984
  2. ↑ 494Eddy#1,492 → #998
  3. ↑ 422Terrence#1,223 → #801
  4. ↑ 371Hughie#1,355 → #984
  5. ↑ 363Rexford#1,287 → #924
Fallers
  1. ↓ 444Baxter#916 → #1,360
  2. ↓ 429Adelbert#817 → #1,246
  3. ↓ 407Jonnie#925 → #1,332
  4. ↓ 406Faustino#984 → #1,390
  5. ↓ 387Deward#859 → #1,246

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

See the top 100 for 1925 →