Brennen
Last seen for girls in 2014 at #16,513 · #4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births
Given to boys 98.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 378 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,039since 1962
Brennen over time
Rank among boys' names. Brennen has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,857 | 20 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,605 | 31 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,416 | 34 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,100 | 39 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,499 | 53 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,347 | 57 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,974 | 74 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,147 | 65 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,746 | 88 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,389 | 126 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,259 | 143 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #1,201 | 153 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #1,014 | 192 |
| 2012 | — | #757 | 302 | |
| 2011 | — | #740 | 306 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #629 | 387 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #580 | 455 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #650 | 375 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 | #654 | 366 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #732 | 292 |
| 2005 | — | #659 | 326 | |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #627 | 337 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #560 | 400 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #583 | 367 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #571 | 362 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #548 | 384 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #574 | 341 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #534 | 378 |
| 1997 | — | #575 | 322 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #656 | 254 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #661 | 250 |
| 1994 | — | #668 | 242 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #770 | 185 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #779 | 180 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #819 | 159 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #898 | 131 |
| 1989 | — | #864 | 135 | |
| 1988 | — | #855 | 123 | |
| 1987 | — | #982 | 93 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,242 | 60 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #1,304 | 54 |
| 1984 | — | #1,294 | 51 | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #1,594 | 37 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #1,415 | 45 |
| 1981 | — | #2,338 | 21 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,619 | 36 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,943 | 27 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,568 | 17 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,904 | 26 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #2,508 | 17 |
| 1975 | — | #1,948 | 24 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,946 | 12 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,622 | 8 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,973 | 11 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,213 | 17 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,907 | 9 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
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| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brennen! It came in at #3,640, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1964, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Brennen is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#348 · 1 in 5,109
- Oregon#362 · 1 in 3,671
- Louisiana#467 · 1 in 3,948
- Washington#467 · 1 in 5,433
- Maryland#470 · 1 in 6,132
Best ever in a state: #220 in Idaho, 1992.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #348 | 6 | 1 in 5,109 |
| Oregon | #362 | 5 | 1 in 3,671 |
| Louisiana | #467 | 8 | 1 in 3,948 |
| Washington | #467 | 6 | 1 in 5,433 |
| Maryland | #470 | 5 | 1 in 6,132 |
| Tennessee | #509 | 5 | 1 in 6,770 |
| Ohio | #555 | 8 | 1 in 9,615 |
| Michigan | #637 | 6 | 1 in 10,778 |
| California | #786 | 20 | 1 in 12,612 |
| Florida | #948 | 5 | 1 in 16,893 |
| Texas | #1,209 | 6 | 1 in 24,018 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Brennen
- 1,252 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #4,857)
- 2,510 spots since 2020 (#2,347 → #4,857)
- 3,598 spots since 2015 (#1,259 → #4,857)
- Biggest jump: 260 spots in 1987 (#1,242 → #982)
- Biggest drop: 257 spots in 2013 (#757 → #1,014)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1998 at #534 (378 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1987–2012
- Highest: 1 in 4,360 boys born in 2009 were named Brennen (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 85,404 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #534 in 1998, was only 1 in 5,057 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.5% of all boys named Brennen (3,664) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 42 | #2,907 (1968) | #3,400 |
| 1970s | 166 | #1,904 (1977) | #2,668 |
| 1980s | 655 | #855 (1988) | #1,351 |
| 1990s | 2,442 | #534 (1998) | #693 |
| 2000s | 3,664 | #548 (2000) | #616 |
| 2010s | 1,836 | #629 (2010) | #1,286 |
| 2020s | 234 | #2,347 (2020) | #3,304 |
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.
Brennen in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 15,563 of them was named Brennen, which outranked 89.9% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).