Brenten
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brenten has been given to 879 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2010, with 33 recorded.
Babies named Brenten, 2024
1 in 418,000
Brenten 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Brenten?
Brenten had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 215,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brenten sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brenten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brentens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brenten was born before 1999 — so the typical Brenten is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 23.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 47.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 879
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (206).
Is Brenten 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2010 (33)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.2% average annual change
Spellings of Brenten
Brenten is not the most common spelling — Brent is, with 29.9% against Brenten's 0.19%.
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 Brenten is used
Across 1910–2025, Brenten was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,113,672 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Brenten has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Brenten around the world
Where Brenten 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.
- South Australia1963–2006#657in 2006
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Brenten by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Brenten
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brenten
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.