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Brent

in the US

There are 6,776 people with the last name "Brent" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Brent 4,092
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  1. is 4,088th most common Lister
  2. is 4,089th most common Cazares
  3. is 4,090th most common Mccallister
  4. is 4,091st most common Barrows
  5. is 4,092nd most common Brent
  6. is 4,093rd most common Earnest
  7. is 4,094th most common Southerland
  8. is 4,095th most common Dellinger
  9. is 4,096th most common Padron

Similar Names and Nicknames

Brennan, Brenner, Brenneman, Brant, Brenda, Brummett, Breneman, Brendel, Brenton, Brendle

Most Common First Names for Brent

James, Robert, Michael, John, William, David, Richard, Mary, George

Meaning & History

English:

  • 1. topographic name for someone who lived by a piece of ground that had been cleared by fire, from Middle English brend, past participle of brennen ‘to burn’.
  • 2. habitational name from any of the places in Devon and Somerset named Brent, probably from Old English brant ‘steep’, or from an old Celtic (British) word meaning ‘hill’, ‘high place’.
  • 3. byname or nickname for a criminal who had been branded; compare Henry Brendcheke (‘burned cheek’), recorded in Northumbria in 1279.

    • FOREBEARS Giles Brent (died 1672) came from Gloucestershire, England, to MD in 1638.

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