Brentyn
Brentyn was last recorded in 2022, when 7 babies were given it; 236 Americans have been recorded with it between 1985 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brentyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brentyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,981, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 2011, the peak
Brentyn peaked in 2011, when 14 boys were given it, #5,982 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #9,981 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,712 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,416 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,701 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,245 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,236 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,125 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,621 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,197 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,843 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | #5,982 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,652 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,758 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,104 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,265 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,705 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,589 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,772 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,564 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,612 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,371 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,651 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 12 | #4,986 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,906 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,023 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,825 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,740 | 3.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,636 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brentyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brentyn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brentyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brentyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 232 Americans named Brentyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 199 people named Brentyn (6 women and girls, 193 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 16,595 babies since 1880, Brentyn is the third most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 70 babies recorded by SSA was a Brentyn (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 Brentyn
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 Brentyn and names like it
- Compare Brentyn and BrentonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrentyn peaked in 2011.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Brentyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brentyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.