Bentley
Bentley was given to 1,649 boys in 2025, #215 among boys’ names; 63,562 Americans have been recorded with it since 1890 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 62,500 Americans named Bentley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bentley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bentley?
#215 among boys’ names, 2025
Bentley fell from #92 in 2015 to #215 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 2.3 to 1.0 per 1,000.
6,143 babies in 2012, the peak
Bentley peaked in 2012, when 6,143 babies were given it (5,895 boys, #75 among boys’ names). The 1,795 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,649 | #215 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,782 | #201 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,922 | #186 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 2,197 | #172 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 2,522 | #150 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 2,590 | #141 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 2,983 | #130 | 1.7 |
| 2018 | 3,279 | #121 | 1.8 |
| 2017 | 3,841 | #101 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 4,073 | #100 | 2.1 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,342 | #92 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 4,785 | #89 | 2.5 |
| 2013 | 5,395 | #81 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 5,895 | #75 | 3.1 |
| 2011 | 5,587 | #75 | 2.9 |
| 2010 | 3,776 | #100 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 522 | #514 | 0.26 |
| 2008 | 217 | #936 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 195 | #996 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 170 | #1,054 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 130 | #1,217 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 101 | #1,402 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 81 | #1,560 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 70 | #1,679 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 74 | #1,597 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,428 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 43 | #2,166 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,652 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,399 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,750 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,509 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,688 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,702 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,839 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,611 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 26 | #2,553 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,063 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,034 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,166 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 32 | #1,835 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,621 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,416 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 29 | #1,892 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,577 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,162 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,208 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,672 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,120 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,265 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,283 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,411 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,252 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,060 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,747 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 24 | #1,683 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,736 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 27 | #1,477 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 32 | #1,346 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 29 | #1,431 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,070 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,198 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 67 | #925 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 65 | #951 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,177 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 46 | #1,140 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,204 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,654 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,890 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,223 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,963 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,048 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,861 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,678 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,448 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,045 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,034 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,921 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 16 | #1,821 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,411 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,893 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,419 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,633 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,537 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,905 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,302 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,496 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,695 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 13 | #1,967 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,259 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,916 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,478 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,887 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 15 | #1,973 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,215 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,387 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 17 | #1,965 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 18 | #1,848 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,013 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,050 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,461 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,351 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,158 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,616 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,158 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,171 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,101 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 15 | #1,958 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,436 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,303 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,528 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,199 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 6 | #896 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bentley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 63,562 Americans recorded as Bentley, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 146 girls and 1,649 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bentley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bentley, and how old are they?
62,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 63,562 Americans ever recorded as Bentley. The median Bentley alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 42,505 people named Bentley (2,616 women and girls, 39,889 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 49,924 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 44 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 368 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 302 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 507 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 18,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 43,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Bentley born?
The states with the most babies named Bentley are Ohio, Texas and Florida, with 18% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 115 | #116 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 113 | #375 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 86 | #240 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 82 | #168 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 76 | #170 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 71 | #135 | 1.7× |
| Indiana | 68 | #116 | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 66 | #153 | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 65 | #103 | 1.6× |
| Kentucky | 62 | #81 | 2.3× |
Where Bentley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bentley is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1910 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bentley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 71,300 babies since 1880, Bentley is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,795 of their 1,933 babies (93%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bentley
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bentley and names like it
- Compare Bentley and BentleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBentley peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bentley since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Bentley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bentley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.