Bently
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to boys 96.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 436 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,443since 1915
Bently over time
Rank among boys' names. Bently has never cracked the top 500 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,045 | 19 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,104 | 39 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,002 | 27 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2021 | — | #3,121 | 38 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,728 | 45 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,129 | 67 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,029 | 71 | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #1,829 | 81 |
| 2016 | — | #1,450 | 119 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,271 | 141 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,188 | 155 | |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #897 | 232 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #637 | 376 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #574 | 436 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 | #667 | 359 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #2,203 | 60 |
| 2008 | — | #5,767 | 15 | |
| 2007 | — | #7,590 | 10 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
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| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
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| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,364 | 12 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,033 | 8 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bently! It came in at #3,392, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1926, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Bently is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Missouri#529 · 1 in 3,236
- Iowa#544 · 1 in 3,155
- Wisconsin#593 · 1 in 3,915
- Oregon#616 · 1 in 3,670
- Michigan#642 · 1 in 4,442
Best ever in a state: #179 in North Dakota, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Missouri | #529 | 10 | 1 in 3,236 |
| Iowa | #544 | 5 | 1 in 3,155 |
| Wisconsin | #593 | 7 | 1 in 3,915 |
| Oregon | #616 | 5 | 1 in 3,670 |
| Michigan | #642 | 11 | 1 in 4,442 |
| Maryland | #680 | 6 | 1 in 4,704 |
| Indiana | #723 | 7 | 1 in 5,164 |
| Pennsylvania | #760 | 10 | 1 in 6,078 |
| Ohio | #831 | 9 | 1 in 6,698 |
| Georgia | #1,203 | 5 | 1 in 11,003 |
| Florida | #1,476 | 6 | 1 in 16,002 |
| Texas | #1,578 | 9 | 1 in 20,728 |
| California | #2,572 | 5 | 1 in 46,259 |
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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 Bently
- 1,941 spots since 2024 (#3,104 → #5,045)
- 2,317 spots since 2020 (#2,728 → #5,045)
- 3,774 spots since 2015 (#1,271 → #5,045)
- Biggest jump: 1,536 spots in 2010 (#2,203 → #667)
- Biggest drop: 291 spots in 2014 (#897 → #1,188)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2011 at #574 (436 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2010–2013
- Highest: 1 in 4,356 boys born in 2011 were named Bently (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 83.4% of all boys named Bently (2,037) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 6 | #3,392 (1915) | #3,392 |
| 1920s | 6 | #3,780 (1927) | #3,780 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 13 | #3,033 (1958) | #3,511 |
| 1960s | 37 | #2,364 (1962) | #3,355 |
| 1970s | 5 | #4,986 (1972) | #4,986 |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,523 (1985) | #6,523 |
| 1990s | 6 | #7,971 (1996) | #7,971 |
| 2000s | 116 | #2,203 (2009) | #7,208 |
| 2010s | 2,037 | #574 (2011) | #1,267 |
| 2020s | 212 | #2,728 (2020) | #3,479 |
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.
Bently in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 12,393 of them was named Bently, which outranked 91.6% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,184Nick157
- #1,186Diesel156
- #1,186Guy156
- #1,188Bently155
- #1,188Amar155
- #1,188Brixton155
- #1,188Carmine155
- #1,198Jarvis154
- #1,198Mccoy154
- #1,198Tobin154
Tied with 9 names at #1,188; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.