Brenner
Last seen for girls in 2016 at #16,215 · #4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2008 · 76 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,222since 1979
Brenner over time
Rank among boys' names. Brenner has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,539 | 22 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,072 | 26 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,220 | 25 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,019 | 19 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,780 | 20 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,698 | 20 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,340 | 17 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,607 | 30 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,993 | 26 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #2,838 | 42 |
| 2015 | — | #3,231 | 35 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,985 | 38 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,763 | 42 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,104 | 64 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,035 | 66 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,402 | 52 |
| 2009 | — | #1,910 | 75 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,899 | 76 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,185 | 61 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,932 | 38 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,752 | 39 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,741 | 38 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,729 | 36 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,755 | 34 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,429 | 40 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,621 | 35 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,103 | 26 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,823 | 27 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,911 | 25 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,559 | 18 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,911 | 16 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,501 | 18 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
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| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
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| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brenner! It came in at #6,056, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1984, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Brenner is popular in 1979
No state had 5 or more boys named Brenner in 1979, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Brenner
- 467 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #4,539)
- 159 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #4,539)
- 1,308 spots since 2015 (#3,231 → #4,539)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2008 at #1,899 (76 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,448 boys born in 2009 were named Brenner (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,899 in 2008, was only 1 in 26,844 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.6% of all boys named Brenner (472) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 22 | #4,968 (1987) | #5,448 |
| 1990s | 179 | #2,823 (1997) | #4,097 |
| 2000s | 472 | #1,899 (2008) | #2,495 |
| 2010s | 412 | #2,035 (2011) | #3,130 |
| 2020s | 132 | #4,072 (2024) | #4,555 |
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.
Brenner in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 344,307 of them was named Brenner, which outranked 14.4% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,015 names at #6,056; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.