Bentleigh — #8749 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Bentleigh

The Social Security Administration has registered 551 babies named Bentleigh between 2004 and 2024, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bentleigh currently holds the #8749 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 60 babies received it in a single year. Bentleigh is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 61 additional births since 2010.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bentleigh performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 440 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Bentleigh shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 34 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Bentleigh in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bentleigh in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 551 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.