girls:
567 births since 1947
#5149 (10th percentile)
boys:
139.6k births since 1885
#241 (95th percentile)
overall:
140.1k births since 1885
#533 (93rd percentile)
The name Brent is the #533 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 140,149 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 93.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #241 (94.8% percentile) for all time with 139,582 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #5,149 (9.9% percentile) for all time with 567 births since 1947.
Brent first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1947 for girls). Birth data for Brent is available in 114 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (114 years for boys and 39 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 Brent has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brent reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 89.2% percentile (ranked #73) with 2,230 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 2,242 births per million (ranked 89.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1974, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brent ranks #791 for boys (13.2% percentile) with 68 births per million, which is 3.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brent reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #747) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brent".
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