Benzley
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Benzley by the numbers
Benzley was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Benzley
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 Benzley. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Bentleemeadow of bent grass; a modern respelling of Bentley315 in the US (2017)
- Brentleyburnt meadow; a modern respelling of Brantley289 in the US (2017)
- Bentlybent grass meadow; a form of Bentley89 in the US (2017)
- Beckleymeadow by a stream6 in the US (2017)
- Bentleibent grass meadow; a form of Bentley5 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Benzley
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