Bently
Bently was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,059 among boys’ names; 2,524 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,480 Americans named Bently and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 11 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bently by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bently?
#5,059 among boys’ names, 2025
Bently fell from #1,271 in 2015 to #5,059 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 73.6 to 11.1 per million.
450 babies in 2011, the peak
Bently peaked in 2011, when 450 babies were given it (436 boys, #575 among boys’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,059 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,111 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,013 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 44 | #2,876 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,129 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,731 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,133 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,031 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 81 | #1,829 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,451 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 141 | #1,271 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 155 | #1,189 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 232 | #898 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 376 | #637 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 436 | #575 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 359 | #667 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,204 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,798 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,652 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,812 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,692 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,094 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,704 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,047 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,617 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,060 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,633 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,085 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,382 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,117 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,692 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,038 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,056 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,817 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,437 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bently a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,524 Americans recorded as Bently, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bently: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bently, and how old are they?
2,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,524 Americans ever recorded as Bently. The median Bently alive today is 14 years old; half are between 11 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 2,871 people named Bently (147 women and girls, 2,724 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 38 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,090 |
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 Bently born?
The states with the most babies named Bently are Texas, Ohio and California, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 141 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 125 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 110 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 94 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Missouri | 92 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 71 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 68 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 56 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 55 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 53 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Bently is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bently is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1915 it was given 1.3 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 Bently with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Bently?
Bently is a less common spelling of Bentley: SSA has recorded 2,524 Bently and 63,562 Bentley since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 71,300 babies since 1880, Bently is the third most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 1,933 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Bently
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 Bently and names like it
- Compare Bently and BentleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBently peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bently since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Bently.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bently alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.