Brennen
Brennen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 31 births. Its best rank was 534th, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 310.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2009455 births
- Best rank
- #534in 1998
- Since 1962
- 9,018people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,018 boys have been named Brennen in the United States since 1962, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 455 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 41%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Brennen was the 580th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Brennen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Trevenpeak 2004
- Collenpeak 1997
- Trentonpeak 2007
- Brennanpeak 2009
- Niklaspeak 2000
- Donavenpeak 2002
- Collinpeak 1996
- Racepeak 2002
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.