Meaning not yet researched.
Brenna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 108 in 2025. Its best rank was #235 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #235 in 1995; #1,846 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brenna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,846 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #235.
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Brenna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 108 girls in 2025. Peak: #235 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 1,212 (1995).
In 2025, 108 US girls were named Brenna, making it the 1,846th most common girls’ name of the year, up 225 places from #2,071 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 93 girls named Brenna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #235, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,212. For comparison, it was #792 in 2015 and #2,353 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brenna in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 7 babies. In all, 29,371 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 9,202 babies named Brenna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,685 US girls were named Brenna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 304. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,882 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brenna ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #752 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Brianna (265,237 babies since 1880), Briana (97,326 babies since 1880), Breanna (82,440 babies since 1880) and Bryanna (19,643 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brenae, Brenay and Breonah are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brenae (555), Brenay (38), Breonah (30), Brenaya (5), Brenai (5), Brynnae (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 Brenna in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 6 | #752 | #309 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,031 | #534 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,160 | #576 |
| New York | 6 | #1,872 | #893 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,932 | #1,018 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,935 | #1,273 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 2024 | 93 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 2023 | 92 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 2022 | 118 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 2021 | 154 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 2020 | 149 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 2019 | 175 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 2018 | 232 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 2017 | 260 | #996 | — | — |
| 2016 | 304 | #911 | — | — |
| 2015 | 356 | #792 | — | — |
| 2014 | 362 | #774 | — | — |
| 2013 | 417 | #680 | — | — |
| 2012 | 458 | #622 | — | — |
| 2011 | 576 | #510 | — | — |
| 2010 | 644 | #469 | — | — |
| 2009 | 709 | #443 | — | — |
| 2008 | 766 | #422 | — | — |
| 2007 | 886 | #369 | — | — |
| 2006 | 845 | #383 | — | — |
| 2005 | 885 | #355 | — | — |
| 2004 | 966 | #330 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,036 | #296 | — | — |
| 2002 | 924 | #328 | — | — |
| 2001 | 960 | #322 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,023 | #310 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,027 | #300 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,047 | #287 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,035 | #282 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,149 | #248 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,212 | #235 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,002 | #279 | — | — |
| 1993 | 739 | #345 | — | — |
| 1992 | 725 | #354 | — | — |
| 1991 | 661 | #389 | — | — |
| 1990 | 605 | #419 | — | — |
| 1989 | 554 | #440 | — | — |
| 1988 | 527 | #432 | — | — |
| 1987 | 489 | #452 | — | — |
| 1986 | 440 | #487 | — | — |
| 1985 | 453 | #467 | — | — |
| 1984 | 411 | #490 | — | — |
| 1983 | 366 | #519 | — | — |
| 1982 | 316 | #580 | — | — |
| 1981 | 331 | #560 | — | — |
| 1980 | 300 | #613 | — | — |
| 1979 | 211 | #762 | — | — |
| 1978 | 212 | #736 | — | — |
| 1977 | 183 | #820 | — | — |
| 1976 | 185 | #774 | — | — |
| 1975 | 188 | #757 | — | — |
| 1974 | 167 | #807 | — | — |
| 1973 | 134 | #918 | — | — |
| 1972 | 112 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1971 | 135 | #948 | — | — |
| 1970 | 120 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1969 | 99 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1968 | 95 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1967 | 59 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 1966 | 52 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1965 | 60 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,477 | — | — |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,653 | — | — |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,526 | — | — |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,762 | — | — |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,023 | — | — |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,353 | — | — |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,205 | — | — |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,501 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,388 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,036 | — | — |
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).