# Bentley (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bentley/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 63,562 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 60,027 / 3,535 (6% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,706, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 288 | 905 |
| 2012 | 248 | 1,021 |
| 2013 | 215 | 1,126 |
| 2014 | 178 | 1,327 |
| 2015 | 185 | 1,297 |
| 2016 | 152 | 1,498 |
| 2017 | 151 | 1,480 |
| 2018 | 144 | 1,514 |
| 2019 | 152 | 1,452 |
| 2020 | 115 | 1,746 |
| 2021 | 134 | 1,566 |
| 2022 | 130 | 1,622 |
| 2023 | 144 | 1,500 |
| 2024 | 120 | 1,700 |
| 2025 | 146 | 1,468 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5,587 | 75 |
| 2012 | 5,895 | 75 |
| 2013 | 5,395 | 81 |
| 2014 | 4,785 | 89 |
| 2015 | 4,342 | 92 |
| 2016 | 4,073 | 100 |
| 2017 | 3,841 | 101 |
| 2018 | 3,279 | 121 |
| 2019 | 2,983 | 130 |
| 2020 | 2,590 | 141 |
| 2021 | 2,522 | 150 |
| 2022 | 2,197 | 172 |
| 2023 | 1,922 | 186 |
| 2024 | 1,782 | 201 |
| 2025 | 1,649 | 215 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 157 | 284 |
| 2012 | 174 | 269 |
| 2013 | 184 | 263 |
| 2014 | 153 | 299 |
| 2015 | 143 | 322 |
| 2016 | 138 | 341 |
| 2017 | 124 | 372 |
| 2018 | 92 | 446 |
| 2019 | 85 | 472 |
| 2020 | 61 | 587 |
| 2021 | 56 | 650 |
| 2022 | 54 | 646 |
| 2023 | 40 | 814 |
| 2024 | 47 | 737 |
| 2025 | 33 | 934 |

## People named Bentley

- Bentley Little, American writer
- Walter B. Woodbury, English inventor and photographer (1834-1885)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.