Meaning not yet researched.
Brenner: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,901 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,901 in 2008; #4,563 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brenner in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,563 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,901.
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Brenner: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,901 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 76 (2008).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Brenner, making it the 4,563rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 469 places from #4,094 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 26 boys named Brenner in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,901, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 76. For comparison, it was #3,239 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brenner in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 1,232 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 472 babies named Brenner.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 247 US boys were named Brenner; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Breyner, Brynner and Breiner 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Breyner (66), Brynner (33), Breiner (27), Brener (5), Bryner (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 Brenner 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 | — | — | 22 | #4,563 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,094 |
| 2023 | — | — | 25 | #4,242 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,046 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,802 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,722 |
| 2019 | — | — | 17 | #5,382 |
| 2018 | — | — | 30 | #3,615 |
| 2017 | — | — | 26 | #4,007 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,685 | 42 | #2,841 |
| 2015 | — | — | 35 | #3,239 |
| 2014 | — | — | 38 | #2,990 |
| 2013 | — | — | 42 | #2,769 |
| 2012 | — | — | 64 | #2,106 |
| 2011 | — | — | 66 | #2,038 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,477 | 52 | #2,408 |
| 2009 | — | — | 75 | #1,912 |
| 2008 | — | — | 76 | #1,901 |
| 2007 | — | — | 61 | #2,189 |
| 2006 | — | — | 38 | #2,940 |
| 2005 | — | — | 39 | #2,757 |
| 2004 | — | — | 38 | #2,749 |
| 2003 | — | — | 36 | #2,739 |
| 2002 | — | — | 34 | #2,762 |
| 2001 | — | — | 40 | #2,434 |
| 2000 | — | — | 35 | #2,628 |
| 1999 | — | — | 26 | #3,115 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,204 |
| 1997 | — | — | 27 | #2,831 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,927 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,570 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #3,927 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,513 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,909 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,377 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #5,894 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,298 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,026 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,209 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,160 |
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).