Given name
Brently
“from the meadow near the hill”
Brently is a variant of Brentley. One English interpretation is “from the meadow near the hill.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Brently is a variant of Brentley. One English interpretation is “from the meadow near the hill.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Brently is a variant of Brentley. An origin associated with Brentley is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1960. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brently through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,442
- 1,424 boys · 18 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 121 babies
- 2025
- 19
- #5,065 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −51%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 19 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,065 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 50.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 121 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,233 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Brently’s family of names
Brently has a related form in Brentley.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Brently
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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