Brentton
Brentton was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 182 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brentton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brentton?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,530, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1985, the peak
Brentton peaked in 1985, when 11 boys were given it, #3,824 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #12,530 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,088 | 4.0 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,103 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,969 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,687 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,588 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,935 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,433 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,218 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,829 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 7 | #7,372 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,563 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,540 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,889 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,811 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,903 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,587 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,692 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,852 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,827 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,183 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,844 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,824 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,435 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brentton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brentton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brentton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brentton, and how old are they?
An estimated 176 Americans named Brentton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 23 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 183 people named Brentton (1 woman or girl, 182 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 178 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Brentton?
Brentton is a less common spelling of Brenton: SSA has recorded 182 Brentton and 15,117 Brenton since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 16,595 babies since 1880, Brentton is the fourth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 70 babies recorded by SSA was a Brentton (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Brentton
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 Brentton and names like it
- Compare Brentton and BrentonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBrentton peaked in 1985.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Brentton.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brentton alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.