Bentley — #201 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Bentley

The Social Security Administration has registered 58,336 babies named Bentley between 1890 and 2024, spanning 135 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bentley currently holds the #201 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 5,895 babies received it in a single year. Bentley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,388 additional births since 1986.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bentley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 43,937 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Bentley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,588 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Bentley in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bentley 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 58,336 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.