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Brent
Pronounced /bɹɛnt/
Rank in 2024
#1,657
Born in 2024
102
Peak year
1970 · #74
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 102 boys were named Brent, about 1 in every 16,817.
- It peaked in 1970 with 4,270 babies, ranked #74.
- It first shows up in the records in 1885.
- 139,687 boys have been named Brent since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Brent per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.8Boomers1946–64
- 2.0Gen X1965–80
- 1.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 267 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 2,563 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Boomers: 29,825 babies, 0.79 per 1,000. Gen X: 53,154 babies, 1.95 per 1,000. Millennials: 40,855 babies, 1.34 per 1,000. Gen Z: 10,787 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,226 babies, 0.10 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
English surname from placenames in Devon and Somerset, from Old English brant (“steep”), referring to hills. Compare Brents.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of 20th century and later usage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /bɹɛnt/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Brent, CC BY-SA 4.0.