Meaning not yet researched.
Brent: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 116 in 2025. Its best rank was #73 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #73 in 1971; #1,509 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brent in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,509 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #73.
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Brent: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 116 boys in 2025. Peak: #73 in 1971 · most boys in one year: 4,269 (1970).
In 2025, 116 US boys were named Brent, making it the 1,509th most common boys’ name of the year, up 142 places from #1,651 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 102 boys named Brent in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #73, reached in 1971. The most boys given the name in a single year was 4,269, in 1970. For comparison, it was #875 in 2015 and #212 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brent in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 140,366 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 35,590 babies named Brent.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,537 US boys were named Brent; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 211. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,725 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brent ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #595 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bret (30,051 babies since 1880), Brant (9,579 babies since 1880), Brentley (4,548 babies since 1880) and Brently (1,442 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Briant, Brentt and Brend are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Briant (967), Brentt (294), Brend (56), Brint (54), Bryent (32), Brynt (17), Breonte (11).
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 Brent in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 7 | #595 | #389 |
| Indiana | 6 | #864 | #915 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #942 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,135 | #842 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,300 | #1,009 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,380 | #1,012 |
| California | 11 | #1,521 | #1,054 |
| New York | 5 | #1,807 | #1,014 |
| Texas | 8 | #1,933 | #859 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 116 | #1,509 |
| 2024 | — | — | 102 | #1,651 |
| 2023 | — | — | 125 | #1,450 |
| 2022 | — | — | 138 | #1,354 |
| 2021 | — | — | 154 | #1,240 |
| 2020 | — | — | 145 | #1,265 |
| 2019 | — | — | 182 | #1,094 |
| 2018 | — | — | 163 | #1,175 |
| 2017 | — | — | 201 | #1,007 |
| 2016 | — | — | 211 | #973 |
| 2015 | — | — | 254 | #875 |
| 2014 | — | — | 263 | #850 |
| 2013 | — | — | 289 | #777 |
| 2012 | — | — | 318 | #731 |
| 2011 | — | — | 287 | #782 |
| 2010 | — | — | 368 | #655 |
| 2009 | — | — | 399 | #628 |
| 2008 | — | — | 471 | #559 |
| 2007 | — | — | 522 | #506 |
| 2006 | — | — | 544 | #485 |
| 2005 | — | — | 562 | #454 |
| 2004 | — | — | 646 | #405 |
| 2003 | — | — | 685 | #382 |
| 2002 | — | — | 727 | #362 |
| 2001 | — | — | 847 | #330 |
| 2000 | — | — | 900 | #319 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,055 | #279 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,202 | #249 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,254 | #241 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,820 | 1,337 | #226 |
| 1995 | — | — | 1,586 | #194 |
| 1994 | — | — | 1,630 | #188 |
| 1993 | — | — | 1,801 | #178 |
| 1992 | — | — | 1,958 | #160 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,687 | 2,193 | #146 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,951 | 2,608 | #127 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,586 | 2,748 | #118 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,090 | 2,869 | #107 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,032 | 2,835 | #103 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,561 | 3,061 | #94 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,524 | 3,321 | #89 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,015 | 3,186 | #89 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,829 | 3,030 | #94 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,349 | 3,321 | #91 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,635 | 3,371 | #88 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,224 | 3,537 | #84 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,247 | 3,455 | #84 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,520 | 3,181 | #87 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,621 | 3,423 | #85 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,421 | 3,405 | #78 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,788 | 3,364 | #79 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,842 | 3,413 | #76 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,651 | 3,287 | #80 |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,984 | 3,530 | #77 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,276 | 4,053 | #73 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,399 | 4,269 | #74 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,454 | 3,355 | #92 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,190 | 2,919 | #102 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,221 | 2,861 | #108 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,666 | 2,689 | #114 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,872 | 2,408 | #131 |
| 1964 | — | — | 2,745 | #125 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,348 | 2,815 | #125 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,924 | 2,558 | #139 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,932 | 2,553 | #137 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,477 | 2,261 | #154 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,081 | 2,280 | #151 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,474 | 2,072 | #159 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,574 | 1,779 | #174 |
| 1956 | — | — | 1,457 | #191 |
| 1955 | — | — | 1,382 | #193 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,709 | 1,232 | #202 |
| 1953 | — | — | 1,202 | #201 |
| 1952 | — | — | 1,081 | #205 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,897 | 942 | #211 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,788 | 908 | #212 |
| 1949 | — | — | 738 | #240 |
| 1948 | — | — | 645 | #256 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,809 | 669 | #257 |
| 1946 | — | — | 506 | #287 |
| 1945 | — | — | 269 | #362 |
| 1944 | — | — | 315 | #336 |
| 1943 | — | — | 350 | #328 |
| 1942 | — | — | 315 | #343 |
| 1941 | — | — | 289 | #340 |
| 1940 | — | — | 288 | #336 |
| 1939 | — | — | 185 | #418 |
| 1938 | — | — | 114 | #544 |
| 1937 | — | — | 91 | #610 |
| 1936 | — | — | 65 | #749 |
| 1935 | — | — | 51 | #884 |
| 1934 | — | — | 45 | #943 |
| 1933 | — | — | 46 | #927 |
| 1932 | — | — | 32 | #1,200 |
| 1931 | — | — | 36 | #1,131 |
| 1930 | — | — | 29 | #1,337 |
| 1929 | — | — | 24 | #1,486 |
| 1928 | — | — | 19 | #1,769 |
| 1927 | — | — | 26 | #1,477 |
| 1926 | — | — | 21 | #1,669 |
| 1925 | — | — | 19 | #1,814 |
| 1924 | — | — | 18 | #1,900 |
| 1923 | — | — | 15 | #2,133 |
| 1922 | — | — | 14 | #2,256 |
| 1921 | — | — | 21 | #1,710 |
| 1920 | — | — | 22 | #1,648 |
| 1919 | — | — | 21 | #1,637 |
| 1918 | — | — | 19 | #1,770 |
| 1917 | — | — | 17 | #1,820 |
| 1916 | — | — | 18 | #1,704 |
| 1915 | — | — | 17 | #1,715 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,538 |
| 1912 | — | — | 8 | #1,906 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,620 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,122 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #955 |
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).