Brentlee
#5,422 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brentlee has been given to 964 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #5,422 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 87 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% boys, 14% girls all-time.
Babies named Brentlee, 2025
1 in 195,000
Brentlee 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Brentlee over time
In 2025, Brentlee went to 23% girls and 77% 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 Brentlee?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 100,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,422
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brentlee 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brentlee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brentlees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brentlee was born before 2016 — so the typical Brentlee is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 75.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 827
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 75.0% of all recorded uses (620).
Is Brentlee 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
- −840
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,394
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,668
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.20×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 19.5%
- Peak was 2015 (87)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.5% average annual change
Spellings of Brentlee
Brentlee is not the most common spelling — Bentley is, with 56.8% against Brentlee's 0.78%.
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 Brentlee is used
Across 2016–2025, Brentlee was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 42,592 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
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.
Brentlee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Brentlee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brentlee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.