Bentyn
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Bentyn by the numbers
Bentyn was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 10 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Bentyn
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Bentyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Bentonbent grass settlement or town230 in the US (2017)
- Bensyn11 in the US (2017)
- Brentyn9 in the US (2017)
- Bensonson of ben or blessed son620 in the US (2017)
- Brentonsettlement of the Britons or on a steep hill155 in the US (2017)
- Bennyson of the right hand; diminutive of Benjamin69 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Bentyn
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