Bentleigh
Girl · BENT-lee · English
Bentleigh is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “clearing with bent grass”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Bentleigh mean?
English: spelling of Bentley, a place name and surname
“clearing with bent grass”
- Say it
- BENT-lee
Is Bentleigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Bentleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls and 6 boys in the US.
How popular is Bentleigh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 49% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Bentleigh, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 60 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004. 6 boys were also named Bentleigh in 2025 (10,690th for boys).
Half of all the girls named Bentleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 183 girls in the US were given Bentleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,115, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Bentleigh in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,635 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,342 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,143 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,065 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,841 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,224 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,902 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,934 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,867 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,359 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
Names like Bentleigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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