Brentley — #1778 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Brentley

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,167 babies named Brentley between 1957 and 2024, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brentley currently holds the #1778 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 413 babies received it in a single year. Brentley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 293 additional births since 1989.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brentley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,786 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Brentley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 243 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Brentley in 30 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brentley 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 4,167 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.