Bentleigh
A girls’ name of Old English origin, meaning bent grass clearing; a form of Bentley.
Babies a year
43
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Bentleigh by the numbers
Bentleigh was given to 43 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 59 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.
Other names that come from Bentley
Like Bentleigh, each of these traces back to Bentley: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Bentleigh. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Berkleighbirch wood clearing; modern spelling variant of Berkeley41 in the US (2017)
- Bentleibent grass meadow; a form of Bentley5 in the US (2017)
- Brenleigh43 in the US (2017)
- Bexleigh36 in the US (2017)
- Brantleigh8 in the US (2017)
- Brynleighhill meadow; a modern respelling of Bryn with -leigh suffix231 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Bentleigh, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Savannahgrassy plain; treeless plain5,231 in the US (2017)
- Kinsleyfrom the king's meadow; an English place name used as given name4,048 in the US (2017)
- Haileyhay meadow; form of Hayley3,691 in the US (2017)
- Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
- Everlywild boar meadow; form of Everley3,510 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Bentleigh
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