Meaning not yet researched.
Brendan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 195 in 2025. Its best rank was #96 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #96 in 1999; #1,098 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brendan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,098 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #96.
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Brendan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 195 boys in 2025. Peak: #96 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 3,995 (1999).
In 2025, 195 US boys were named Brendan, making it the 1,098th most common boys’ name of the year, down 89 places from #1,009 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 222 boys named Brendan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #96, reached in 1999. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,995. For comparison, it was #387 in 2015 and #880 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brendan in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 9 babies. In all, 92,141 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 28,630 babies named Brendan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,779 US boys were named Brendan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 688. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,759 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brendan ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #449 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Branden (27,867 babies since 1880), Brenden (25,757 babies since 1880), Brendon (20,103 babies since 1880) and Brandan (5,776 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brendin, Brynden and Bryndon are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Brendin (711), Brynden (277), Bryndon (197), Breandan (164), Brinden (97), Brennden (73), Bryndan (63), Brenndan (56), Brenndon (26), Brindon (26), Brindin (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Brendan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 6 | #449 | #236 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #559 | #125 |
| Illinois | 16 | #575 | #288 |
| Virginia | 12 | #591 | #254 |
| New York | 23 | #642 | #252 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #677 | #349 |
| Maryland | 6 | #721 | #237 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #723 | #338 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #840 | #252 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #878 | #331 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #925 | #221 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,056 | #524 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,117 | #359 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,173 | #609 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,298 | #337 |
| California | 12 | #1,452 | #552 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,878 | #476 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 195 | #1,098 |
| 2024 | — | — | 222 | #1,009 |
| 2023 | — | — | 262 | #888 |
| 2022 | — | — | 269 | #881 |
| 2021 | — | — | 327 | #767 |
| 2020 | — | — | 344 | #722 |
| 2019 | — | — | 422 | #638 |
| 2018 | — | — | 490 | #562 |
| 2017 | — | — | 560 | #517 |
| 2016 | — | — | 688 | #450 |
| 2015 | — | — | 826 | #387 |
| 2014 | — | — | 922 | #352 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,009 | #326 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,149 | #301 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,315 | #263 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,527 | #231 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,762 | #212 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,781 | 1,887 | #207 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,927 | #205 |
| 2006 | — | — | 2,171 | #185 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,237 | 2,360 | #176 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,832 | 2,719 | #150 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,162 | 2,867 | #141 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,601 | 3,141 | #124 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,730 | 3,345 | #115 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,269 | 3,657 | #101 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,891 | 3,995 | #96 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,675 | 3,879 | #99 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,344 | 3,621 | #107 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,816 | 2,817 | #131 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,585 | 2,692 | #133 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,208 | 2,731 | #129 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,023 | 2,302 | #145 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,115 | 2,299 | #145 |
| 1991 | — | — | 2,189 | #147 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,574 | 1,996 | #155 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,199 | 2,146 | #145 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,937 | 1,796 | #153 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,679 | 1,808 | #156 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,750 | 1,401 | #185 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,068 | 1,382 | #185 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,988 | 1,332 | #188 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,140 | 1,276 | #191 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,560 | 1,198 | #206 |
| 1981 | — | — | 1,157 | #215 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,954 | 1,102 | #219 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,380 | 991 | #230 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,711 | 895 | #235 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,935 | 768 | #258 |
| 1976 | — | — | 825 | #244 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,094 | 654 | #292 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,044 | 631 | #292 |
| 1973 | — | — | 552 | #319 |
| 1972 | — | — | 503 | #343 |
| 1971 | — | — | 543 | #336 |
| 1970 | — | — | 568 | #336 |
| 1969 | — | — | 470 | #364 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,100 | 496 | #349 |
| 1967 | — | — | 444 | #356 |
| 1966 | — | — | 489 | #339 |
| 1965 | — | — | 307 | #439 |
| 1964 | — | — | 288 | #466 |
| 1963 | — | — | 245 | #513 |
| 1962 | — | — | 240 | #510 |
| 1961 | — | — | 241 | #513 |
| 1960 | — | — | 217 | #538 |
| 1959 | — | — | 178 | #586 |
| 1958 | — | — | 123 | #685 |
| 1957 | — | — | 144 | #639 |
| 1956 | — | — | 114 | #692 |
| 1955 | — | — | 98 | #736 |
| 1954 | — | — | 68 | #894 |
| 1953 | — | — | 78 | #813 |
| 1952 | — | — | 66 | #865 |
| 1951 | — | — | 54 | #950 |
| 1950 | — | — | 61 | #880 |
| 1949 | — | — | 51 | #970 |
| 1948 | — | — | 51 | #975 |
| 1947 | — | — | 39 | #1,162 |
| 1946 | — | — | 49 | #952 |
| 1945 | — | — | 48 | #928 |
| 1944 | — | — | 39 | #1,055 |
| 1943 | — | — | 55 | #899 |
| 1942 | — | — | 37 | #1,121 |
| 1941 | — | — | 43 | #972 |
| 1940 | — | — | 32 | #1,185 |
| 1939 | — | — | 32 | #1,144 |
| 1938 | — | — | 33 | #1,130 |
| 1937 | — | — | 36 | #1,075 |
| 1936 | — | — | 40 | #990 |
| 1935 | — | — | 34 | #1,127 |
| 1934 | — | — | 33 | #1,151 |
| 1933 | — | — | 24 | #1,364 |
| 1932 | — | — | 25 | #1,391 |
| 1931 | — | — | 11 | #2,340 |
| 1930 | — | — | 21 | #1,606 |
| 1929 | — | — | 17 | #1,853 |
| 1928 | — | — | 18 | #1,835 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,875 |
| 1926 | — | — | 19 | #1,795 |
| 1925 | — | — | 20 | #1,748 |
| 1924 | — | — | 17 | #1,970 |
| 1923 | — | — | 21 | #1,702 |
| 1922 | — | — | 15 | #2,154 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,011 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,622 |
| 1919 | — | — | 16 | #1,983 |
| 1918 | — | — | 10 | #2,713 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,300 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,570 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,124 |
| 1914 | — | — | 13 | #1,791 |
| 1913 | — | — | 8 | #2,113 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,764 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).