Brently
Brently was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,064 among boys’ names; 1,442 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,390 Americans named Brently and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 10 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brently by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brently?
#5,064 among boys’ names, 2025
Brently fell from #1,679 in 2015 to #5,064 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 48.5 to 11.1 per million.
121 babies in 2014, the peak
Brently peaked in 2014, when 121 boys were given it, #1,397 among boys’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,064 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,913 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,902 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,629 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,251 | 20.6 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,209 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,946 | 22.9 |
| 2018 | 50 | #2,551 | 27.5 |
| 2017 | 54 | #2,391 | 29.2 |
| 2016 | 76 | #1,924 | 40.0 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 93 | #1,679 | 48.5 |
| 2014 | 121 | #1,397 | 63.0 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,447 | 60.3 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,491 | 56.9 |
| 2011 | 46 | #2,632 | 24.2 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,723 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,584 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,441 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,312 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,704 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,388 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,586 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,934 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,133 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,508 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #5,955 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,699 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,921 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,315 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,043 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,157 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,433 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,468 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,739 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,253 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,318 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,294 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,769 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,274 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,462 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,205 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,287 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,909 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,643 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,437 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,364 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,189 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,606 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,221 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,114 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,368 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,589 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,105 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,016 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 11 | #2,991 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,635 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,321 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,132 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,486 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,640 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #3,976 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,429 | 6.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,347 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,043 | 7.7 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,388 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,701 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brently a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,442 Americans recorded as Brently, 1% are girls and 99% 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 Brently: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brently, and how old are they?
1,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,442 Americans ever recorded as Brently. The median Brently alive today is 13 years old; half are between 10 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,233 people named Brently (79 women and girls, 1,154 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,255 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 37 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 133 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 191 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 328 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 704 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,954 babies since 1880, Brently is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 126 babies (15%), the third most given that year.
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 Brently
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 Brently and names like it
- Compare Brently and BrentleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrently peaked in 2014.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brently since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Brently.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brently alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.