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How popular is “Brentley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brentley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brentley” 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 “Brentley” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brentley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brentley” 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
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 -100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 -100%
1962 12 0.000002974 12 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1966 14 0.000004028 14 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1971 12 0.000003496 12 -100%
1972 18 0.000005727 18 -100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 -100%
1974 15 0.000004934 15 -100%
1975 12 0.000003974 12 -100%
1976 16 0.000005273 16 -100%
1977 13 0.000004093 13 -100%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 -100%
1979 12 0.000003607 12 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 -100%
1982 19 0.000005416 19 -100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 -100%
1984 11 0.000003153 11 -100%
1985 15 0.000004203 15 -100%
1986 16 0.000004498 16 -100%
1987 19 0.00000527 19 -100%
1988 25 0.000006766 25 -100%
1989 41 0.000010665 7 34 -66%
1990 24 0.000006072 5 19 -58%
1991 18 0.000004621 18 -100%
1992 15 0.000003905 15 -100%
1993 18 0.000004774 18 -100%
1994 16 0.000004304 16 -100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 -100%
1996 15 0.000004113 5 10 -33%
1997 14 0.000003861 6 8 -14%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 -100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 -100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 -100%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 -100%
2002 19 0.000005083 6 13 -37%
2003 17 0.000004471 6 11 -29%
2004 22 0.000005758 22 -100%
2005 23 0.000005982 6 17 -48%
2006 30 0.000007583 12 18 -20%
2007 15 0.000003752 5 10 -33%
2008 23 0.000005851 6 17 -48%
2009 35 0.000009162 12 23 -31%
2010 79 0.000021376 12 67 -70%
2011 167 0.000045656 14 153 -83%
2012 327 0.000089409 23 304 -86%
2013 386 0.000105879 14 372 -93%
2014 436 0.000117635 23 413 -89%
2015 423 0.000114296 12 411 -94%
2016 343 0.000093494 17 326 -90%
2017 291 0.000081371 13 278 -91%
2018 250 0.000071106 12 238 -90%
2019 244 0.000070298 20 224 -84%
2020 190 0.000056876 9 181 -91%
2021 165 0.000048702 13 152 -84%
2022 130 0.000038426 12 118 -82%
2023 142 0.000042885 14 128 -80%
2024 101 0.000030344 9 92 -82%

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