Meaning not yet researched.
Brentley: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 75 in 2025. Its best rank was #637 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #637 in 2014; #2,009 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Brentley in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,009 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #637.
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Brentley: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 75 boys in 2025. Peak: #637 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 413 (2014).
In 2025, 75 US boys were named Brentley, making it the 2,009th most common boys’ name of the year, down 230 places from #1,779 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 92 boys named Brentley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #637, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 413. For comparison, it was #642 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Brentley, making it the 9,558th most common girls’ name of the year, up 116 places from #9,674 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 10 girls named Brentley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,650, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 23. For comparison, it was #9,046 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brentley in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 4,548 US babies have been given the name, 6.7% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,947 babies named Brentley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,813 US boys were named Brentley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 326. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,774 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brentley ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #724 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Brent (140,366 babies since 1880), Brantley (32,435 babies since 1880), Brently (1,442 babies since 1880) and Brentlee (964 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Brentley 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 5 | #724 | #195 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #856 | #255 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,115 | #412 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,381 | #548 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,879 | #604 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,558 | 75 | #2,009 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,674 | 92 | #1,779 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,712 | 128 | #1,423 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,626 | 119 | #1,518 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,108 | 152 | #1,256 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,406 | 181 | #1,095 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,016 | 224 | #956 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,702 | 238 | #906 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,363 | 278 | #815 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,958 | 326 | #748 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,046 | 411 | #642 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,650 | 413 | #637 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,212 | 372 | #653 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,740 | 304 | #751 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,275 | 154 | #1,159 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,325 | 67 | #2,040 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,490 | 23 | #4,299 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,732 | 17 | #5,280 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,096 | 10 | #7,674 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,389 | 18 | #4,887 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,796 | 17 | #4,847 |
| 2004 | — | — | 22 | #4,025 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,138 | 11 | #6,314 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,874 | 13 | #5,436 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,070 |
| 2000 | — | — | 13 | #5,325 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,068 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #5,885 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,296 | 8 | #6,685 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,821 | 10 | #5,581 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,162 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #3,928 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,514 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #3,939 |
| 1991 | — | — | 18 | #3,342 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,230 | 19 | #3,184 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,801 | 34 | #2,072 |
| 1988 | — | — | 25 | #2,377 |
| 1987 | — | — | 19 | #2,737 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,017 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,091 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,733 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,650 |
| 1982 | — | — | 19 | #2,519 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,631 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,548 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,383 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,085 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,061 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,618 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,094 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,561 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,040 |
| 1972 | — | — | 18 | #2,165 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,832 |
| 1970 | — | — | 13 | #2,635 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,343 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,199 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,794 |
| 1966 | — | — | 14 | #2,142 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,272 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,883 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,347 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,389 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,567 |
| 1960 | — | — | 12 | #2,436 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,312 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,305 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,045 |
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).