Brent
Brent is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 102 births. Its best rank was 73rd, in 1971.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1020.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19704,270 births
- Best rank
- #73in 1971
- Since 1885
- 139,687people given the name
The story in the numbers
139,687 boys have been named Brent in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 4,270 births — 0.23% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 102 births in 2024, against 4,270 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1976, and the 1970s alone account for 25%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 18 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Brent | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 111 | |
| 1920s | 199 | |
| 1930s | 694 | |
| 1940s | 4,384 | |
| 1950s | 14,335 | |
| 1960s | 27,165 | |
| 1970s | 35,383 | |
| 1980s | 31,280 | |
| 1990s | 16,624 | |
| 2000s | 6,303 | |
| 2010s | 2,535 | |
| 2020s | 664 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Brent was the 74th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1970 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Brent
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Brianpeak 1972
- Bryonpeak 1970
- Ericpeak 1970
- Geoffreypeak 1975
- Lancepeak 1970
- Michalepeak 1956
- Terancepeak 1991
- Daivdpeak 1982
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.