Brent
About 140,366 American babies have been named Brent since 1885, most of them around 1970. In 2025 it ranked 1,509th. About 122,000 Brents are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Brent boys named Brent
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 140,366
- Estimated living today
- 122,000
- Median age today
- 47
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 74th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,509th
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 567 / 139,799
How old the living Brents are
born that year still alive today
Of the 140,366 babies given the name since 1885, about 122,000 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 4,200 of them are children and 14,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
English surname from placenames in Devon and Somerset, from Old English brant (“steep”), referring to hills. Compare Brents.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Brents
- Brent Spiner (born 1949)American actor
- Brent Corrigan (born 1986)American film and pornographic actor
- Brent Scowcroft (1925–2020)9th & 17th United States National Security Advisor
- Brent Everett (born 1984)Canadian pornographic actor and director
- Brent Sancho (born 1977)footballer and politician from Trinidad and Tobago
- Brent Renaud (1971–2022)American documentary filmmaker and journalist
- Brent W. Jett (born 1958)American astronaut
- Brent Barry (born 1971)American basketball player
People named Brent with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Brent is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Brent is most concentrated in Utah (4.4×), Idaho (3.3×), North Dakota (2.6×), Iowa (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular boys’ names the year Brent peaked:
Brent elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand boys | Brent | 5,564 | 22nd |
| Belgium boys | Brent | 3,712 | 37th |
| England and Wales boys | Brent | 243 | 571st |
| Scotland boys | Brent | 61 | 236th |
| France boys | Brent | 25 | 3,330th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Brent | 4 | 244th |
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.
Brent: rank by region
In 2025, Brent was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Brent | 806 | 6 |
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Brent appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (326th).
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.
Brent 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 boys | Brent | 2,370 | 2,711 |
| Finland boys | Brent | 5 | 9 |
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
Brent 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.