girls:
18 births since 2010
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1960
#3245 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1960
#6340 (18th percentile)
The name Brently is the #6,340 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,403 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 18.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,245 (29.2% percentile) for all time with 1,385 births since 1960. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 2010.
Brently first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for boys and 2010 for girls).
The name Brently has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brently reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 12.8% percentile (ranked #788) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 59 births per million (ranked 12.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brently ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 18.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brently reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #942) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brently".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brently is pronounced as BREHN-tlee, which has 2 syllables.
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