Brent

Brent is the 4,732nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,256 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 41,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,256
Rank: 4,732nd
How common: 1 in 41,200
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 56.2%
Black, not Hispanic 33.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Brent

George Brent (1904–1979)Irish-American actor
Evelyn Brent (1899–1975)American actress (1899/1901–1975)
Laura Brent (born 1988)Australian actress
Eve Brent (1929–2011)actress
Tim Brent (born 1984)Canadian ice hockey player
Richard P. Brent (born 1946)Australian academic

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

Surnames like Brent

Also a first name

Brent has been given to 140,366 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 1970. 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.