Meaning not yet researched.
Brenden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #242 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #242 in 1999; #2,891 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brenden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,891 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #242.
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Brenden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #242 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 1,394 (2000).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Brenden, making it the 2,891st most common boys’ name of the year, down 383 places from #2,508 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 54 boys named Brenden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #242, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,394, in 2000. For comparison, it was #897 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brenden in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 8 babies. In all, 25,757 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 10,995 babies named Brenden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,169 US boys were named Brenden; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 205. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brenden ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,316 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Brandon (774,654 babies since 1880), Brendan (92,141 babies since 1880), Branden (27,867 babies since 1880) and Brendon (20,103 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Brenden 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,316 | #995 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 43 | #2,891 |
| 2024 | — | — | 54 | #2,508 |
| 2023 | — | — | 61 | #2,292 |
| 2022 | — | — | 78 | #1,968 |
| 2021 | — | — | 104 | #1,621 |
| 2020 | — | — | 119 | #1,452 |
| 2019 | — | — | 131 | #1,365 |
| 2018 | — | — | 170 | #1,135 |
| 2017 | — | — | 205 | #993 |
| 2016 | — | — | 204 | #999 |
| 2015 | — | — | 242 | #897 |
| 2014 | — | — | 345 | #706 |
| 2013 | — | — | 430 | #591 |
| 2012 | — | — | 533 | #499 |
| 2011 | — | — | 579 | #463 |
| 2010 | — | — | 753 | #382 |
| 2009 | — | — | 891 | #351 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,994 | 898 | #352 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,004 | #318 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,011 | #316 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,002 | #323 |
| 2004 | — | — | 1,145 | #278 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,184 | #266 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,240 | #259 |
| 2001 | — | — | 1,221 | #267 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,394 | #243 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,493 | 1,316 | #242 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,267 | #245 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,109 | #255 |
| 1996 | — | — | 908 | #293 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,707 | 705 | #349 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,719 | 731 | #337 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,673 | 571 | #405 |
| 1992 | — | — | 509 | #435 |
| 1991 | — | — | 451 | #466 |
| 1990 | — | — | 363 | #517 |
| 1989 | — | — | 313 | #549 |
| 1988 | — | — | 295 | #532 |
| 1987 | — | — | 285 | #538 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,195 | 202 | #631 |
| 1985 | — | — | 147 | #728 |
| 1984 | — | — | 168 | #669 |
| 1983 | — | — | 128 | #763 |
| 1982 | — | — | 119 | #809 |
| 1981 | — | — | 104 | #870 |
| 1980 | — | — | 103 | #880 |
| 1979 | — | — | 86 | #953 |
| 1978 | — | — | 59 | #1,150 |
| 1977 | — | — | 72 | #1,013 |
| 1976 | — | — | 71 | #991 |
| 1975 | — | — | 66 | #1,007 |
| 1974 | — | — | 45 | #1,248 |
| 1973 | — | — | 51 | #1,150 |
| 1972 | — | — | 49 | #1,164 |
| 1971 | — | — | 42 | #1,293 |
| 1970 | — | — | 32 | #1,496 |
| 1969 | — | — | 43 | #1,202 |
| 1968 | — | — | 64 | #900 |
| 1967 | — | — | 40 | #1,181 |
| 1966 | — | — | 50 | #1,027 |
| 1965 | — | — | 31 | #1,387 |
| 1964 | — | — | 17 | #1,977 |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,550 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,524 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,388 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,094 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,060 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,303 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,044 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #2,998 |
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).