Name meaning & stats
Bently
Bently means “bent-grass clearing”. 2,512 US babies since 1940, peak 2011.
What it means
“bent-grass clearing”
Spelling of Bentley
In US birth records
Peak year: 2011
2,512 US babies were named Bently between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Bently (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 26 Bentleys spell it Bently
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2011)