Name meaning & stats
Bentley
Bentley means “bent-grass clearing”. 63,227 US babies since 1940, peak 2012.
What it means
“bent-grass clearing”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2012
63,227 US babies were named Bentley between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Bentley (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Bentley is the main spelling
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2012)