Meaning not yet researched.
Brennen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #534 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #534 in 1998; #4,882 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brennen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,882 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #534.
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Brennen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #534 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 455 (2009).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Brennen, making it the 4,882nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,259 places from #3,623 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 31 boys named Brennen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #534, reached in 1998. The most boys given the name in a single year was 455, in 2009. For comparison, it was #1,261 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brennen in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 6 babies. In all, 9,217 US babies have been given the name, 1.9% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,744 babies named Brennen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 587 US boys were named Brennen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 126. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brennan (35,487 babies since 1880) and Brennon (4,382 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 Brennen 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 | — | — | 20 | #4,882 |
| 2024 | — | — | 31 | #3,623 |
| 2023 | — | — | 34 | #3,428 |
| 2022 | — | — | 39 | #3,110 |
| 2021 | — | — | 53 | #2,507 |
| 2020 | — | — | 57 | #2,350 |
| 2019 | — | — | 74 | #1,977 |
| 2018 | — | — | 65 | #2,148 |
| 2017 | — | — | 88 | #1,749 |
| 2016 | — | — | 126 | #1,391 |
| 2015 | — | — | 143 | #1,261 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,005 | 153 | #1,202 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,932 | 192 | #1,014 |
| 2012 | — | — | 302 | #757 |
| 2011 | — | — | 306 | #740 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,476 | 387 | #629 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,622 | 455 | #580 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,782 | 375 | #650 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,445 | 366 | #654 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,388 | 292 | #732 |
| 2005 | — | — | 326 | #659 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,986 | 337 | #627 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,137 | 400 | #560 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,821 | 367 | #583 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,472 | 362 | #571 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,412 | 384 | #549 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,558 | 341 | #574 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,379 | 378 | #534 |
| 1997 | — | — | 322 | #575 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,819 | 254 | #656 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,871 | 250 | #661 |
| 1994 | — | — | 242 | #668 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,739 | 185 | #771 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,624 | 180 | #779 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,495 | 159 | #819 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,357 | 131 | #900 |
| 1989 | — | — | 135 | #864 |
| 1988 | — | — | 123 | #857 |
| 1987 | — | — | 93 | #983 |
| 1986 | — | — | 60 | #1,243 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,859 | 54 | #1,305 |
| 1984 | — | — | 51 | #1,297 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,152 | 37 | #1,600 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,679 | 45 | #1,419 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,351 |
| 1980 | — | — | 36 | #1,624 |
| 1979 | — | — | 27 | #1,947 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,581 |
| 1977 | — | — | 26 | #1,912 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,447 | 17 | #2,518 |
| 1975 | — | — | 24 | #1,953 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #2,971 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,105 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,659 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #2,992 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,222 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,342 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #2,931 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,275 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,271 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,105 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,676 |
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).