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
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 5,895 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 7 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 60,027since 1890
Bentley 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 | #1,467 | 146 | #215 | 1,649 |
| 2024 | #1,698 | 120 | #201 | 1,782 |
| 2023 | #1,500 | 144 | #186 | 1,922 |
| 2022 | #1,621 | 130 | #172 | 2,197 |
| 2021 | #1,562 | 134 | #150 | 2,522 |
| 2020 | #1,743 | 115 | #141 | 2,590 |
| 2019 | #1,452 | 152 | #130 | 2,983 |
| 2018 | #1,512 | 144 | #121 | 3,279 |
| 2017 | #1,478 | 151 | #101 | 3,841 |
| 2016 | #1,496 | 152 | #100 | 4,073 |
| 2015 | #1,297 | 185 | #92 | 4,342 |
| 2014 | #1,326 | 178 | #89 | 4,785 |
| 2013 | #1,126 | 215 | #81 | 5,395 |
| 2012 | #1,018 | 248 | #75 | 5,895 |
| 2011 | #905 | 288 | #75 | 5,587 |
| 2010 | #1,063 | 233 | #100 | 3,776 |
| 2009 | #1,561 | 144 | #514 | 522 |
| 2008 | #2,157 | 93 | #936 | 217 |
| 2007 | #2,348 | 81 | #996 | 195 |
| 2006 | #2,438 | 76 | #1,054 | 170 |
| 2005 | #2,902 | 56 | #1,216 | 130 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 | #1,404 | 101 |
| 2003 | #3,731 | 37 | #1,561 | 81 |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 | #1,682 | 70 |
| 2001 | #3,368 | 40 | #1,600 | 74 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 | #2,425 | 39 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | #2,162 | 43 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #2,651 | 31 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | #2,396 | 34 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #2,500 | 30 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #2,697 | 26 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #2,606 | 26 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #2,553 | 26 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #2,068 | 34 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #2,035 | 31 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #2,169 | 27 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #2,161 | 26 |
| 1985 | — | #1,834 | 32 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,613 | 18 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,408 | 20 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,890 | 29 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,569 | 18 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,284 | 22 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,157 | 23 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,205 | 21 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,665 | 16 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,113 | 22 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,246 | 11 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,277 | 18 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,405 | 16 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,243 | 17 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,052 | 20 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,743 | 25 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,680 | 24 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,731 | 21 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,476 | 27 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,345 | 32 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,429 | 29 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,070 | 50 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,195 | 42 | |
| 1962 | — | #926 | 67 | |
| 1961 | — | #950 | 65 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,178 | 44 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,141 | 46 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,204 | 41 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,631 | 10 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,886 | 18 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,219 | 13 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,956 | 16 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,038 | 15 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,856 | 17 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,662 | 9 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,438 | 10 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,027 | 14 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,916 | 16 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,813 | 16 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,393 | 9 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,890 | 14 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,405 | 10 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,629 | 19 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,532 | 20 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,894 | 14 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,288 | 10 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,964 | 13 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,246 | 11 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,393 | 10 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,905 | 14 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,465 | 10 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,864 | 8 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,964 | 15 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,199 | 13 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,357 | 7 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,959 | 17 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,846 | 18 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,012 | 16 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,043 | 16 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,446 | 12 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,347 | 13 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,152 | 15 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,602 | 11 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,152 | 14 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,165 | 14 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,091 | 14 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,949 | 15 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
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| 1911 | — | #1,190 | 9 | |
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| 1890 | — | #884 | 6 | |
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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 1963
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#391 · 1 in 4,506
- Louisiana#577 · 1 in 7,924
Best ever in a state: #3 in West Virginia, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #391 | 5 | 1 in 4,506 |
| Louisiana | #577 | 5 | 1 in 7,924 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bentley
- 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)
- Debuted 1890
- Peaked 2012 at #75 (5,895 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 7 yrs · run 2010–2016
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 322 boys born in 2012 were named Bentley (0.31%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,036 boys born in 2025 (0.10%)
- 73.2% of all boys named Bentley (43,956) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | #884 (1890) | #884 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 83 | #1,190 (1911) | #2,337 |
| 1920s | 138 | #1,846 (1926) | #2,296 |
| 1930s | 108 | #1,905 (1933) | #2,325 |
| 1940s | 139 | #1,532 (1941) | #2,052 |
| 1950s | 195 | #1,141 (1959) | #2,003 |
| 1960s | 401 | #926 (1962) | #1,298 |
| 1970s | 189 | #1,743 (1970) | #2,311 |
| 1980s | 257 | #1,834 (1985) | #2,203 |
| 1990s | 294 | #2,162 (1999) | #2,583 |
| 2000s | 1,599 | #514 (2009) | #1,339 |
| 2010s | 43,956 | #75 (2012) | #96 |
| 2020s | 12,662 | #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 1963
Top boys' names in 1963
More about 1963
boys
2,031,078 boys got a published name in 1963; 1 in 48,359 of them was named Bentley, which outranked 74.1% of the 4,621 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,175Shon43
- #1,175Tyson43
- #1,175Waldo43
- #1,195Bentley42
- #1,195Allison42
- #1,195Anthoney42
- #1,195Arlin42
- #1,215Benjie41
- #1,215Darris41
- #1,215German41
Tied with 19 names at #1,195; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.