Meaning not yet researched.
Bently: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #575 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #575 in 2011; #5,060 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bently in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,060 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #575.
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Bently: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 boys in 2025. Peak: #575 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 436 (2011).
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Bently, making it the 5,060th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,947 places from #3,113 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 39 boys named Bently in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #575, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 436. For comparison, it was #1,271 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bently in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 2,524 US babies have been given the name, 3.2% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,099 babies named Bently.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 550 US boys were named Bently; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 119. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bentley (63,562 babies since 1880) and Bentlee (5,139 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bently in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 19 | #5,060 |
| 2024 | — | — | 39 | #3,113 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,016 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,685 | 44 | #2,878 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,130 |
| 2020 | — | — | 45 | #2,732 |
| 2019 | — | — | 67 | #2,134 |
| 2018 | — | — | 71 | #2,032 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,822 | 81 | #1,829 |
| 2016 | — | — | 119 | #1,451 |
| 2015 | — | — | 141 | #1,271 |
| 2014 | — | — | 155 | #1,189 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,713 | 232 | #898 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,195 | 376 | #637 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,267 | 436 | #575 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,264 | 359 | #667 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,617 | 60 | #2,205 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #5,803 |
| 2007 | — | — | 10 | #7,656 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,425 | 8 | #8,818 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,698 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #10,100 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #9,711 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,054 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,623 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,062 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,634 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,086 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,383 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,118 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,693 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,039 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,057 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,819 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,438 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).