Brenton

maleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
39years from first to last
#66highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2022

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2357
1999	#2097
2001	#1949
2003	#3467
2005	#2174
2006	#3385
2014	#4632
2015	#3908
2018	#4749
2022	#4789

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 England and Wales in 10 of the 27 years from 1996 to 2022.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1984–2022 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1984
First recorded at #66 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1984 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Highest recorded1984–1985
Highest recorded position: #66 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 1984 (recorded 1984–1985).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2022
Most recently recorded at #4789 among boys in England and Wales, in 2022.
England and Wales · Boys

Brenton appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 10 ranked years and 42 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, from 1984.

Brenton across 2 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.

Brenton'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	#2357 (1996)	#1949 (2001)	#4789 (2022)	10 of 27	42 (1996–2022)	7 (2005)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#66 (1984)	#66 (1984)	#99 (1985)	2 of 2	193 (1984–1985)	122 (1984)

Brenton 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 Brenton in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	9	2 of 10	5
2000s	20	4 of 10	5
2010s	10	3 of 10	3
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1984 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #66 in New South Wales, Australia in 1984.

Brenton'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	#4789	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
1985	New South Wales, Australia	male	#99	71	Insufficient	Not yet available
1984	New South Wales, Australia	male	#66	122	Insufficient	Not yet available

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages

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

Where Brenton is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Brenton, between 1984 and 2022, in 12 of those 39 years. 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
New South Wales, Australia	1984–1985	2	#66 in 1984
England and Wales	1996–2022	10	#1949 in 2001

Its high point came 17 years earlier in New South Wales, Australia (1984) than in England and Wales (2001).

No registrar recorded it for 10 years after 1985; it appears again in 1996.

Brenton was ranked #66 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 1984. 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.

Dane#62
Gavin#63
Jacob#64
Damien#65
Ian#67
Trent#68
Darren#69
Kevin#70

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 2 regions, from 1984 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #66 in New South Wales, Australia in 1984. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Brenton

Brenton at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Brenton across 2 official records

Brenton by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Brenton is officially recorded

Names published alongside Brenton

Brenton at a glance

Brenton across 2 official records

Brenton by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Names published alongside Brenton