Brenna
#1,844 for girls in 2025, 108 births
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 1,212 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 29,371since 1946
Brenna over time
Rank among girls' names. Brenna has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,844 | 108 |
| 2024 | #2,067 | 93 |
| 2023 | #2,090 | 92 |
| 2022 | #1,754 | 118 |
| 2021 | #1,410 | 154 |
| 2020 | #1,448 | 149 |
| 2019 | #1,307 | 175 |
| 2018 | #1,085 | 232 |
| 2017 | #996 | 260 |
| 2016 | #911 | 304 |
| 2015 | #791 | 356 |
| 2014 | #774 | 362 |
| 2013 | #679 | 417 |
| 2012 | #622 | 458 |
| 2011 | #510 | 576 |
| 2010 | #469 | 644 |
| 2009 | #443 | 709 |
| 2008 | #422 | 766 |
| 2007 | #369 | 886 |
| 2006 | #383 | 845 |
| 2005 | #355 | 885 |
| 2004 | #330 | 966 |
| 2003 | #296 | 1,036 |
| 2002 | #328 | 924 |
| 2001 | #322 | 960 |
| 2000 | #310 | 1,023 |
| 1999 | #300 | 1,027 |
| 1998 | #287 | 1,047 |
| 1997 | #282 | 1,035 |
| 1996 | #248 | 1,149 |
| 1995 | #235 | 1,212 |
| 1994 | #279 | 1,002 |
| 1993 | #345 | 739 |
| 1992 | #354 | 725 |
| 1991 | #389 | 661 |
| 1990 | #419 | 605 |
| 1989 | #440 | 554 |
| 1988 | #432 | 527 |
| 1987 | #452 | 489 |
| 1986 | #487 | 440 |
| 1985 | #467 | 453 |
| 1984 | #490 | 411 |
| 1983 | #518 | 366 |
| 1982 | #580 | 316 |
| 1981 | #560 | 331 |
| 1980 | #613 | 300 |
| 1979 | #762 | 211 |
| 1978 | #736 | 212 |
| 1977 | #819 | 183 |
| 1976 | #774 | 185 |
| 1975 | #757 | 188 |
| 1974 | #807 | 167 |
| 1973 | #917 | 134 |
| 1972 | #1,038 | 112 |
| 1971 | #948 | 135 |
| 1970 | #1,026 | 120 |
| 1969 | #1,109 | 99 |
| 1968 | #1,090 | 95 |
| 1967 | #1,441 | 59 |
| 1966 | #1,548 | 52 |
| 1965 | #1,421 | 60 |
| 1964 | #1,593 | 51 |
| 1963 | #1,649 | 48 |
| 1962 | #1,947 | 35 |
| 1961 | #2,474 | 24 |
| 1960 | #2,649 | 21 |
| 1959 | #2,517 | 21 |
| 1958 | #2,755 | 18 |
| 1957 | #2,926 | 16 |
| 1956 | #2,249 | 24 |
| 1955 | #1,691 | 37 |
| 1954 | #1,585 | 41 |
| 1953 | #1,973 | 27 |
| 1952 | #1,892 | 28 |
| 1951 | #2,016 | 24 |
| 1950 | #2,341 | 18 |
| 1949 | #3,176 | 11 |
| 1948 | #2,491 | 16 |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brenna! It came in at #3,994, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1947, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Brenna is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Dakota#101 · 1 in 301
- South Dakota#105 · 1 in 348
- Iowa#140 · 1 in 541
- Maine#171 · 1 in 589
- Wisconsin#191 · 1 in 835
Best ever in a state: #53 in North Dakota, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | #101 | 9 | 1 in 301 |
| South Dakota | #105 | 9 | 1 in 348 |
| Iowa | #140 | 25 | 1 in 541 |
| Maine | #171 | 7 | 1 in 589 |
| Wisconsin | #191 | 30 | 1 in 835 |
| Montana | #202 | 5 | 1 in 608 |
| Kansas | #210 | 17 | 1 in 813 |
| West Virginia | #224 | 8 | 1 in 861 |
| Connecticut | #240 | 13 | 1 in 1,001 |
| Minnesota | #243 | 25 | 1 in 1,030 |
| Nebraska | #246 | 10 | 1 in 832 |
| Missouri | #269 | 24 | 1 in 1,226 |
| Indiana | #270 | 27 | 1 in 1,204 |
| Nevada | #273 | 12 | 1 in 1,014 |
| Utah | #278 | 17 | 1 in 1,163 |
| Ohio | #287 | 39 | 1 in 1,446 |
| Pennsylvania | #290 | 39 | 1 in 1,419 |
| Kentucky | #292 | 15 | 1 in 1,349 |
| Virginia | #323 | 26 | 1 in 1,447 |
| Colorado | #328 | 18 | 1 in 1,361 |
| Arizona | #375 | 22 | 1 in 1,659 |
| Oregon | #375 | 11 | 1 in 1,508 |
| Idaho | #381 | 5 | 1 in 1,474 |
| Massachusetts | #381 | 15 | 1 in 1,815 |
| Michigan | #386 | 23 | 1 in 1,933 |
| Louisiana | #443 | 10 | 1 in 2,022 |
| Tennessee | #450 | 15 | 1 in 2,146 |
| Illinois | #485 | 27 | 1 in 2,453 |
| Alabama | #490 | 9 | 1 in 2,331 |
| Washington | #491 | 14 | 1 in 2,296 |
| Texas | #537 | 58 | 1 in 2,892 |
| New Jersey | #548 | 14 | 1 in 2,806 |
| Maryland | #566 | 9 | 1 in 2,808 |
| Oklahoma | #571 | 7 | 1 in 2,492 |
| North Carolina | #595 | 16 | 1 in 3,005 |
| Florida | #618 | 26 | 1 in 3,311 |
| New York | #707 | 24 | 1 in 3,980 |
| Georgia | #715 | 14 | 1 in 3,773 |
| South Carolina | #774 | 5 | 1 in 3,840 |
| California | #928 | 40 | 1 in 5,734 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Brenna
- 223 spots since 2024 (#2,067 → #1,844)
- 396 spots since 2020 (#1,448 → #1,844)
- 1,053 spots since 2015 (#791 → #1,844)
- Biggest jump: 149 spots in 1980 (#762 → #613)
- Biggest drop: 120 spots in 2016 (#791 → #911)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1995 at #235 (1,212 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 46 yrs · run 1973–2017
- Highest: 1 in 1,451 girls born in 1995 were named Brenna (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,882 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 31.3% of all girls named Brenna (9,202) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 39 | #2,491 (1948) | #3,739 |
| 1950s | 254 | #1,585 (1954) | #2,195 |
| 1960s | 544 | #1,090 (1968) | #1,692 |
| 1970s | 1,647 | #736 (1978) | #858 |
| 1980s | 4,187 | #432 (1988) | #504 |
| 1990s | 9,202 | #235 (1995) | #314 |
| 2000s | 9,000 | #296 (2003) | #356 |
| 2010s | 3,784 | #469 (2010) | #814 |
| 2020s | 714 | #1,410 (2021) | #1,769 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brenna in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 2,469 of them was named Brenna, which outranked 97.9% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.