girls:
81 births since 2006
#5635 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.4k births since 1915
#2593 (43rd percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1915
#5370 (31st percentile)
The name Bently is the #5,370 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,463 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 30.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,593 (43.4% percentile) for all time with 2,382 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,635 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 81 births since 2006.
Bently first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Bently is available in 33 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (33 years for boys and 8 years for girls). 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 Bently has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Bently reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 43.3% percentile (ranked #500) with 215 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 215 births per million (ranked 43.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Bently ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 6.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Bently reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #932) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bently".
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