Bente
About 10 American babies have been named Bente since 1961, most of them around 1961. It has not appeared in the national data since 1965. About 9 Bentes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bente
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 10
- Estimated living today
- 9
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1961
- Best rank
- 6,567th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1961
Notable Bentes
- Bente Skari (born 1972)Norwegian cross-country skier
- Bente Nordby (born 1974)Norwegian footballer
- Bente Paulis (born 1997)Dutch rower
- Bente Kahan (born 1958)Norwegian musician
People named Bente with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1961
The most popular girls’ names the year Bente peaked:
Bente elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Bente | 16,936 | 2nd |
| Belgium girls | Bente | 617 | 200th |
| Belgium boys | Bente | 40 | 855th |
| England and Wales girls | Bente | 3 | 4,598th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Bente: rank by region
In 2024, Bente was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Bente | 839 | 5 |
In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Bente appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (201st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Bente by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 538th |
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 584th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Bente among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Bente | 5,185 | 6,170 |
| the Netherlands boys | Bente | 58 | 100 |
| Finland girls | Bente | 5 | 8 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Bente against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.