Brentley
Brentley is given to both girls and boys: 10 girls and 75 boys were given it in 2025 (#9,555 among girls’ names and #2,009 among boys’, #3,938 among all names counting both); 4,548 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,460 Americans named Brentley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 8 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brentley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brentley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brentley is “a male given name of modern usage.”
Possibly an invented name. Compare Brent, Brantley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brentley?
#2,009 among boys’ names, 2025
Brentley fell from #642 in 2015 to #2,009 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.21 to 0.04 per 1,000.
436 babies in 2014, the peak
Brentley peaked in 2014, when 436 babies were given it (413 boys, #637 among boys’ names). The 85 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,009 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 92 | #1,779 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 128 | #1,423 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 119 | #1,518 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 152 | #1,256 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 181 | #1,095 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 224 | #956 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 238 | #906 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 278 | #815 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 326 | #748 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 411 | #642 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 413 | #637 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 372 | #653 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 304 | #751 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 154 | #1,159 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,039 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,297 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,275 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,670 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,883 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,842 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,020 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,307 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,429 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,063 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,317 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,062 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,878 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,679 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,574 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,156 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,922 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,508 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,932 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,336 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,178 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,066 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,372 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,733 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,014 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,088 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,730 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,649 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,518 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,629 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,546 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,382 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,084 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,060 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,617 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,092 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,559 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,038 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,165 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,830 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,634 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,342 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,198 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,793 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,141 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,271 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,882 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,346 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,388 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,566 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,435 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,311 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,304 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,044 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brentley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,548 Americans recorded as Brentley, 7% are girls and 93% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brentley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brentley, and how old are they?
4,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,548 Americans ever recorded as Brentley. The median Brentley alive today is 11 years old; half are between 8 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 3,167 people named Brentley (240 women and girls, 2,927 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,718 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 53 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 165 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 271 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,160 |
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 Brentley born?
The states with the most babies named Brentley are Tennessee, Florida and Georgia, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 7 | #856 | 2.3× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,879 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,381 | 1.3× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #724 | 2.8× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,115 | 0.9× |
Where Brentley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brentley is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1957 it was given 2.8 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 Brentley 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,954 babies since 1880, Brentley is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 126 babies (67%), 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 Brentley
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 Brentley and names like it
- Compare Brentley and BrentlyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrentley peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brentley since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Brentley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brentley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.