Bentleigh
#8,441 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bentleigh has been given to 630 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #8,441 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 60 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.
Babies named Bentleigh, 2025
1 in 276,000
Bentleigh over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Bentleigh over time
In 2025, Bentleigh went to 67% girls and 33% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Bentleigh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 134,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,441
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bentleigh sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bentleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bentleighs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bentleigh was born before 2014 — so the typical Bentleigh is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 78.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 563
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 78.2% of all recorded uses (440).
Is Bentleigh rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +89
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,325
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,587
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.31×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 20.0%
- Peak was 2011 (60)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 53.7% average annual change
Spellings of Bentleigh
Bentleigh is not the most common spelling — Kenleigh is, with 33.5% against Bentleigh's 8.4%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Bentleigh is used
Across 1910–2025, Bentleigh was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 408,700 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bentleigh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bentleigh around the world
Where Bentleigh ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada2013–2013#2,340in 2013
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Bentleigh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Bentleigh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bentleigh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.