Brent

maleStatistical record

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

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

Brent: Recorded since 1954, it reached #22 in 1968, and it stood at #3,449 in 2022.

4registrars recorded it
75times a registrar ranked it
69years from first to last
#22highest recorded position
21groupings it qualifies for
8names it appears alongside

What stands out in Brent's record

Held a top-100 place for 39 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#898
1997	#725
1998	#571
1999	#1027
2000	#848
2001	#1078
2002	#1322
2003	#1771
2004	#2304
2005	#1095
2006	#2538
2007	#1756
2008	#3687
2009	#1981
2010	#2941
2011	#2892
2012	#2458
2013	#3822
2015	#4747
2016	#4810
2017	#4812
2018	#3412
2020	#4608
2022	#3449

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in New Zealand in every year from 1954 to 1987.

In 2000: #244 among boys in Northern Ireland, #848 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1954–2022 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1954
First recorded at #67 among boys in New Zealand in 1954 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Boys
Highest recorded1954–1987
Highest recorded position: #22 among boys in New Zealand, in 1968 (recorded 1954–1987).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2022
Most recently recorded at #3449 among boys in England and Wales, in 2022.
England and Wales · Boys

Brent appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is New Zealand · Boys, which has ranked it in 34 years beginning in 1954, and has registered 5,564 births with the name.

Brent 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.

Brent'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
New Zealand · Boys	#67 (1954)	#22 (1968)	#97 (1987)	34 of 34	5,564 (1954–1987)	308 (1968)
England and Wales · Boys	#898 (1996)	#571 (1998)	#3449 (2022)	24 of 27	238 (1996–2022)	32 (1998)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#91 (1974)	#72 (1983)	#92 (1992)	16 of 19	1,470 (1974–1992)	110 (1987)

Brent by decade in New Zealand · 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 Brent in New Zealand · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	756	6 of 10	126
1960sbusiest	2,478	10 of 10	248
1970s	1,739	10 of 10	174
1980s	591	8 of 10	74

Across New Zealand · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade, averaging 248 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1960 and 1961, when recorded births rose by 84, from 172 to 256.

See the names New Zealandhas recorded the most births with →

Brent appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1954 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #22 in New Zealand in 1968.

Brent'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
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1981	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1756	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1095	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1771	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1322	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1078	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#848	19	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1027	14	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#571	32	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#725	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#898	16	High	Verified
1992	New South Wales, Australia	male	#92	89	Insufficient	Not yet available
1991	New South Wales, Australia	male	#87	92	Insufficient	Not yet available
1990	New South Wales, Australia	male	#82	101	Insufficient	Not yet available
1989	New South Wales, Australia	male	#87	92	Insufficient	Not yet available
1988	New South Wales, Australia	male	#78	106	Insufficient	Not yet available
1987	New South Wales, Australia	male	#75	110	Insufficient	Not yet available
1986	New South Wales, Australia	male	#72	104	Insufficient	Not yet available
1985	New South Wales, Australia	male	#81	90	Insufficient	Not yet available
1984	New South Wales, Australia	male	#81	93	Insufficient	Not yet available
1983	New South Wales, Australia	male	#72	108	Insufficient	Not yet available
1981	New South Wales, Australia	male	#82	93	Insufficient	Not yet available
1979	New South Wales, Australia	male	#90	82	Insufficient	Not yet available
1978	New South Wales, Australia	male	#87	85	Insufficient	Not yet available
1977	New South Wales, Australia	male	#100	70	Insufficient	Not yet available
1976	New South Wales, Australia	male	#91	76	Insufficient	Not yet available
1974	New South Wales, Australia	male	#91	79	Insufficient	Not yet available
1987	New Zealand	male	#97	51	High	Verified
1986	New Zealand	male	#75	70	High	Verified
1985	New Zealand	male	#72	67	High	Verified
1984	New Zealand	male	#61	85	High	Verified
1983	New Zealand	male	#93	56	High	Verified
1982	New Zealand	male	#70	66	High	Verified
1981	New Zealand	male	#55	92	High	Verified
1980	New Zealand	male	#54	104	High	Verified
1979	New Zealand	male	#50	118	High	Verified
1978	New Zealand	male	#52	111	High	Verified
1977	New Zealand	male	#53	121	High	Verified
1976	New Zealand	male	#37	168	High	Verified
1975	New Zealand	male	#38	163	High	Verified
1974	New Zealand	male	#38	181	High	Verified
1973	New Zealand	male	#36	191	High	Verified
1972	New Zealand	male	#32	214	High	Verified
1971	New Zealand	male	#26	249	High	Verified
1970	New Zealand	male	#31	223	High	Verified
1969	New Zealand	male	#31	234	High	Verified
1968	New Zealand	male	#22	308	High	Verified
1967	New Zealand	male	#26	249	High	Verified
1966	New Zealand	male	#32	218	High	Verified
1965	New Zealand	male	#30	238	High	Verified
1964	New Zealand	male	#26	261	High	Verified
1963	New Zealand	male	#28	284	High	Verified
1962	New Zealand	male	#32	258	High	Verified
1961	New Zealand	male	#31	256	High	Verified
1960	New Zealand	male	#47	172	High	Verified
1959	New Zealand	male	#46	175	High	Verified
1958	New Zealand	male	#51	153	High	Verified
1957	New Zealand	male	#52	136	High	Verified
1956	New Zealand	male	#64	112	High	Verified
1955	New Zealand	male	#75	82	High	Verified
1954	New Zealand	male	#67	98	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#244	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1954 and 2022, ranked in 63 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #22, first reached in 1968.

It held a top-100 place in 39 years, 39 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 308 births, registered in New Zealand in 1968.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1974, and 46 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.

Brenna · #206, 20y
Brennan · #543, 29y
Brenton · #66, 12y
Brett · #15, 68y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Carmel · #21, 67y
Ciaran · #23, 62y
Clodagh · #20, 62y
Ronan · #20, 62y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Denise · #22, 73y
Derek · #22, 72y
Janice · #22, 73y
Tony · #22, 74y

Comparisons involving Brent

Existing comparison pages where Brent and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Brent in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Tony vs Brent
Tony and Brent changed places 13 times in New Zealand · Boys between 1954 and 1987, ending at #58 and #97.
Tony · Brent · 34 shared years, 1954–1987 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 1987 New Zealand ranking
Michael vs Brent
Both reached their highest recorded position in New Zealand · Boys within 2 years — Michael #1 in 1968, Brent #22 in 1968.
Michael · Brent · 34 shared years, 1954–1987 · Peaked in the same years
See the 1968 New Zealand ranking
Dean vs Brent
Across 32 shared years in New Zealand · Boys, Dean and Brent averaged 11.4 places apart, ending at #66 and #97.
Dean · Brent · 32 shared years, 1956–1987 · Closest over the longest run
See the 1987 New Zealand ranking

Closest long-running positions

Names that stayed close to Brent within one registrar's list over many years. A gap measured inside that list, never across registrars.

Gregory vs Brent
Across 34 shared years in New Zealand · Boys, Gregory and Brent averaged 13.3 places apart, ending at #72 and #97.
Gregory · Brent · 34 shared years, 1954–1987 · Closest over the longest run
See the 1987 New Zealand ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Brent and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Brent vs Hayden
In New Zealand · Boys, Hayden moved into the top 50 at #32 in 1977 as Brent fell out of it to #53, having been #37 the year before.
Brent · Hayden · 14 shared years, 1974–1987 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 1977 New Zealand ranking
Samuel vs Brent
In New Zealand · Boys, Samuel moved into the top 50 at #33 in 1977 as Brent fell out of it to #53, having been #37 the year before.
Samuel · Brent · 18 shared years, 1967–1987 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 1977 New Zealand ranking

Compared inside New Zealand lists

Pairs involving Brent measured in New Zealand's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Brent at its highest position.

Jason vs Brent
Both reached their highest recorded position in New Zealand · Boys within 2 years — Jason #1 in 1970, Brent #22 in 1968.
Jason · Brent · 22 shared years, 1966–1987 · Peaked in the same years
See the 1970 New Zealand ranking

New Zealand overview→

Brent was ranked #22 in New Zealand · Boys in 1968. 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.

Brent and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Brent without appearing here.

Brent moved ahead of

Barry Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4608 and #2404 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #4001.
Grant Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4608 and #3334 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #4001.
Ashleigh Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1027 and #621 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #848 and #881.
Tony Compare
In 1982 they stood at #82 and #77 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys; by 1983 that had become #72 and #99.

Moved ahead of Brent

Harper Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1756 and #2023 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #3687 and #1294.
Rune Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3412 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2228.
Mathias Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1756 and #2211 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #3687 and #1511.
Anders Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2458 and #2721 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #3822 and #2055.

Moved the opposite way to Brent

Alexander Compare
Between 1954 and 1987 in New Zealand · Boys, Brent went from #67 to #97 while Alexander went from #73 to #35.
Andrew Compare
Between 1954 and 1987 in New Zealand · Boys, Brent went from #67 to #97 while Andrew went from #41 to #6.
Christopher Compare
Between 1954 and 1987 in New Zealand · Boys, Brent went from #67 to #97 while Christopher went from #9 to #5.
Daniel Compare
Between 1954 and 1987 in New Zealand · Boys, Brent went from #67 to #97 while Daniel went from #96 to #2.

Moved the same way as Brent

William Compare
Between 1954 and 1987 in New Zealand · Boys, Brent went from #67 to #97 and William from #11 to #19.
Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Brent went from #898 to #3449 and Aaron from #33 to #135.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Brent went from #898 to #3449 and Adam from #16 to #41.
Adrian Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Brent went from #898 to #3449 and Adrian from #204 to #298.

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 4 regions, from 1954 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #22 in New Zealand in 1968. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Brent

Brent at a glance

What stands out in Brent's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Brent across 3 official records

Brent by decade in New Zealand · Boys

Brent appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Comparisons involving Brent

Longest shared records

Closest long-running positions

Order changes

Compared inside New Zealand lists

Names published alongside Brent

Brent and the names beside it

Brent moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Brent

Moved the opposite way to Brent

Moved the same way as Brent

Brent at a glance

What stands out in Brent's record

Brent across 3 official records

Brent by decade in New Zealand · Boys

Brent appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Comparisons involving Brent

Longest shared records

Closest long-running positions

Order changes

Compared inside New Zealand lists

Names published alongside Brent

Brent and the names beside it

Brent moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Brent

Moved the opposite way to Brent

Moved the same way as Brent