Bentley

At the 2020 census, 39,380 Americans bore the surname Bentley — 860th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,590.

By the numbers

People: 39,380
Rank: 860th
How common: 1 in 7,590
Per 100,000: 13.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English Beonetlēah. Originally a Sussex habitational name, the word lēah or lēag meaning field in Old English. Hence, equivalent to /lea (“meadow, field”); compare Bentham.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bentley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.5%
Black, not Hispanic 12.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bentley

Helen Delich Bentley (1923–2016)American politician

People named Bentley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bentley

Also a first name

Bentley has been given to 63,562 American babies as a first name since 1890, peaking in 2012. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.