Bren
- Last seen for girls in 2022 at #13,592
- #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Given to boys 76.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1964 · 10 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 562since 1956
Bren over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2024 | — | #8,987 | 8 | |
| 2023 | — | #8,921 | 8 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | — | #9,554 | 7 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,777 | 12 | |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | — | #9,642 | 7 | |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | — | #8,864 | 8 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #7,236 | 11 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #8,479 | 6 |
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| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,407 | 8 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,360 | 10 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,476 | 12 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,673 | 11 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,618 | 15 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,523 | 14 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,521 | 13 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,268 | 14 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,216 | 14 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
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| 1961 | — | #2,900 | 9 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,871 | 9 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1956
The first year at least five boys were named Bren! It came in at #3,942, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Bren is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Bren in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Bren
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 727 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #9,714)
- 160 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #9,714)
- 2,648 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #9,714)
Rise & fade · boys
8 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1964 at #2,665 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 123,459
- Highest: 1 in 123,459 boys born in 2003 were named Bren (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,665 in 1964, was only 1 in 199,270 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 20.6% of all boys named Bren (116) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2014
- Mostly girls until 2013, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 22 | #3,552 (1957) | #3,764 |
| 1960s | 53 | #2,665 (1964) | #3,235 |
| 1970s | 46 | #3,810 (1979) | #4,646 |
| 1980s | 103 | #3,216 (1985) | #4,364 |
| 1990s | 81 | #4,476 (1991) | #6,127 |
| 2000s | 116 | #4,815 (2003) | #6,840 |
| 2010s | 93 | #6,345 (2018) | #8,212 |
| 2020s | 48 | #7,587 (2021) | #8,959 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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