Bentley

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bentley: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bentley: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #232 in 2016, and it stood at #934 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#232highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2863
1997	#2022
1998	#1485
1999	#2097
2000	#1703
2001	#2587
2002	#2636
2003	#2189
2004	#1498
2005	#1991
2006	#3385
2007	#1361
2008	#1242
2009	#1425
2010	#653
2011	#284
2012	#269
2013	#263
2014	#299
2015	#322
2016	#341
2017	#372
2018	#446
2019	#472
2020	#587
2021	#650
2022	#646
2023	#814
2024	#737
2025	#934

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2025.

In 2024: #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #737 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2863 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2011–2024
Highest recorded position: #232 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2016 (recorded 2011–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #934 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Bentley appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,706 births with the name.

Bentley across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Bentley's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#263 (2013)	#934 (2025)	30 of 30	1,706 (1996–2025)	184 (2013)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#291 (2011)	#232 (2016)	#404 (2024)	10 of 14	54 (2011–2024)	8 (2014)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#479 (2013)	#479 (2013)	#779 (2022)	4 of 10	15 (2013–2022)	6 (2013)

Bentley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Bentley in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	21	4 of 10	5
2000s	95	10 of 10	10
2010sbusiest	1,299	10 of 10	130
2020s	291	6 of 10	49

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 130 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2010 and 2011, when recorded births rose by 108, from 49 to 157.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #232 in Northern Ireland in 2016.

Bentley's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#934	33	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#737	47	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#814	40	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#646	54	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#650	56	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#587	61	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#472	85	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#446	92	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#372	124	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#341	138	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#322	143	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#299	153	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#263	184	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#269	174	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#284	157	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#653	49	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1425	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1242	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1361	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1498	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1703	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1485	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#274	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#365	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#363	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#232	8	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#259	7	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#243	8	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#273	6	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#291	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#479	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Bentley is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Bentley, between 1996 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#263 in 2013
Northern Ireland	2011–2024	10	#232 in 2016
Republic of Ireland	2013–2022	4	#479 in 2013

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #232, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 184 births, registered in England and Wales in 2013.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 17 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Claudine · #232, 28y
Haniya · #233, 27y
Keagan · #231, 30y
Rogan · #234, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Freja · #232, 30y
Shannan · #232, 18y
Annalise · #233, 31y
Haniya · #233, 27y

Bentley was ranked #232 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Adrian#232
Beau#232
Billy#232
Coen#232
Abel#253
Benas#253
Brendan#253
Brian#253

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #232 in Northern Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bentley

Bentley at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bentley across 3 official records

Bentley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Bentley is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bentley

Bentley at a glance

Bentley across 3 official records

Bentley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bentley