<Tr> <Th> Word / name </Th> <Td> obscure--see article </Td> </Tr> <P> Brent is an Old English place name and surname . The place name can be from Celtic words meaning "holy one" (if it refers to the River Brent), or "high place", literally, "from a steep hill" (if it refers to the villages in Somerset and Devon, England) (Mills 1991). The surname often indicates that one's ancestors lived in a place called Brent . </P> <P> Brent has also become a regularly used given name in some countries, being among the thousand most common names for boys born in the United States since 1933 . When used as a given name today, Brent is sometimes a short form of Brenton, but this was probably not the original inspiration for Brent's use as a given name, since Brenton's own regular use as a first name came many years after Brent was established in that role . </P>

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