Meaning not yet researched.
Brendyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,640 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,640 in 2009; #9,859 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brendyn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,859 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,640.
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Brendyn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,640 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 96 (2009).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Brendyn, making it the 9,859th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,963 places from #6,896 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 12 boys named Brendyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,640, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 96. For comparison, it was #3,090 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brendyn in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 6 babies. In all, 1,407 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 603 babies named Brendyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 155 US boys were named Brendyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brendan (92,141 babies since 1880), Brenden (25,757 babies since 1880) and Brendon (20,103 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Brendyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #9,859 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #6,896 |
| 2023 | — | — | 15 | #5,972 |
| 2022 | — | — | 9 | #8,416 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #7,684 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #6,688 |
| 2019 | — | — | 17 | #5,381 |
| 2018 | — | — | 14 | #6,079 |
| 2017 | — | — | 27 | #3,903 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,450 |
| 2015 | — | — | 37 | #3,090 |
| 2014 | — | — | 45 | #2,668 |
| 2013 | — | — | 51 | #2,426 |
| 2012 | — | — | 74 | #1,923 |
| 2011 | — | — | 72 | #1,930 |
| 2010 | — | — | 67 | #2,039 |
| 2009 | — | — | 96 | #1,640 |
| 2008 | — | — | 85 | #1,760 |
| 2007 | — | — | 56 | #2,309 |
| 2006 | — | — | 65 | #2,039 |
| 2005 | — | — | 53 | #2,243 |
| 2004 | — | — | 48 | #2,349 |
| 2003 | — | — | 51 | #2,156 |
| 2002 | — | — | 53 | #2,048 |
| 2001 | — | — | 52 | #2,031 |
| 2000 | — | — | 44 | #2,225 |
| 1999 | — | — | 58 | #1,754 |
| 1998 | — | — | 41 | #2,206 |
| 1997 | — | — | 29 | #2,685 |
| 1996 | — | — | 28 | #2,687 |
| 1995 | — | — | 28 | #2,630 |
| 1994 | — | — | 25 | #2,862 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,732 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,277 |
| 1991 | — | — | 21 | #3,003 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,322 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,211 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #3,937 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,189 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,018 |
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).