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How popular is “Bentley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bentley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bentley” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Bentley” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Bentley” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Bentley” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Bentley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bentley” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 6 0.000003274 6 -100%
1916 15 0.000007754 15 -100%
1917 14 0.000006976 14 -100%
1918 14 0.000006448 14 -100%
1919 14 0.000006634 14 -100%
1920 11 0.000004862 11 -100%
1921 15 0.000006425 15 -100%
1922 13 0.000005679 13 -100%
1923 12 0.000005212 12 -100%
1924 16 0.000006718 16 -100%
1925 16 0.000006857 16 -100%
1926 18 0.00000784 18 -100%
1927 17 0.00000733 17 -100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 -100%
1929 13 0.00000593 13 -100%
1930 15 0.000006747 15 -100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 -100%
1932 10 0.000004736 10 -100%
1933 14 0.000007002 14 -100%
1934 10 0.000004815 10 -100%
1935 11 0.000005263 11 -100%
1936 13 0.000006257 13 -100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1938 9 0.000004068 9 -100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 -100%
1940 14 0.00000608 14 -100%
1941 20 0.000008209 20 -100%
1942 19 0.000006955 19 -100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 -100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 -100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 -100%
1946 16 0.000005007 16 -100%
1947 16 0.000004442 16 -100%
1948 14 0.000004055 14 -100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 -100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 -100%
1952 17 0.000004476 17 -100%
1953 15 0.000003892 15 -100%
1954 16 0.000004019 16 -100%
1955 13 0.000003238 13 -100%
1956 18 0.000004366 18 -100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 -100%
1958 41 0.000009918 41 -100%
1959 46 0.000011063 46 -100%
1960 44 0.000010593 44 -100%
1961 65 0.000015692 65 -100%
1962 67 0.000016603 67 -100%
1963 42 0.000010611 42 -100%
1964 50 0.000012861 50 -100%
1965 29 0.000007999 29 -100%
1966 32 0.000009207 32 -100%
1967 27 0.000007953 27 -100%
1968 21 0.000006216 21 -100%
1969 24 0.000006906 24 -100%
1970 25 0.000006932 25 -100%
1971 20 0.000005827 20 -100%
1972 17 0.000005409 17 -100%
1973 16 0.000005303 16 -100%
1974 18 0.000005921 18 -100%
1975 11 0.000003643 11 -100%
1976 22 0.00000725 22 -100%
1977 16 0.000005037 16 -100%
1978 21 0.000006617 21 -100%
1979 23 0.000006913 23 -100%
1980 22 0.000006387 22 -100%
1981 18 0.000005203 18 -100%
1982 29 0.000008267 29 -100%
1983 20 0.000005775 20 -100%
1984 18 0.000005159 18 -100%
1985 32 0.000008966 32 -100%
1986 33 0.000009277 7 26 -58%
1987 33 0.000009152 6 27 -64%
1988 44 0.000011908 13 31 -41%
1989 42 0.000010925 8 34 -62%
1990 35 0.000008855 9 26 -49%
1991 34 0.000008729 8 26 -53%
1992 37 0.000009632 13 24 -30%
1993 34 0.000009018 8 26 -53%
1994 38 0.000010222 11 27 -42%
1995 40 0.000010923 10 30 -50%
1996 43 0.00001179 16 27 -26%
1997 54 0.000014893 20 34 -26%
1998 47 0.000012778 16 31 -32%
1999 63 0.000017055 20 43 -37%
2000 66 0.000017461 27 39 -18%
2001 114 0.000030454 40 74 -30%
2002 106 0.000028355 36 70 -32%
2003 118 0.000031034 37 81 -37%
2004 146 0.000038211 45 101 -38%
2005 186 0.000048376 56 130 -40%
2006 246 0.000062181 76 170 -38%
2007 276 0.00006904 81 195 -41%
2008 310 0.000078867 93 217 -40%
2009 666 0.000174338 144 522 -57%
2010 4009 0.001084763 233 3776 -88%
2011 5872 0.00160534 288 5584 -90%
2012 6143 0.001679624 248 5895 -92%
2013 5609 0.001538539 215 5394 -92%
2014 4962 0.001338774 178 4784 -93%
2015 4526 0.001222942 185 4341 -92%
2016 4221 0.001150544 152 4069 -93%
2017 3989 0.001115431 151 3838 -92%
2018 3421 0.000973009 144 3277 -92%
2019 3131 0.000902063 152 2979 -90%
2020 2704 0.000809441 115 2589 -91%
2021 2650 0.000782184 134 2516 -90%
2022 2322 0.000686346 130 2192 -89%
2023 2061 0.000622434 144 1917 -86%
2024 1895 0.000569325 119 1776 -87%

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