girls:
539 births since 2004
#5177 (9th percentile)
boys:
61 births since 2010
#4525 (1st percentile)
overall:
600 births since 2004
#7139 (8th percentile)
The name Bentleigh is the #7,139 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 600 recorded births since 2004. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,177 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 539 births since 2004. For boys, it ranks #4,525 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 61 births since 2010.
Bentleigh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2004 (2004 for girls and 2010 for boys). Birth data for Bentleigh is available in 17 out of the 20 years between 2004 and 2023 (17 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bentleigh has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Bentleigh were girls.
For girls, Bentleigh reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 5.9% percentile (ranked #885) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 31 births per million (ranked 5.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Bentleigh ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 35.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bentleigh reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #875) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bentleigh".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Bentleigh is pronounced as BEHN-tlee, which has 2 syllables.
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