Meaning not yet researched.
Brenton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 70 in 2025. Its best rank was #260 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #260 in 1984; #2,096 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brenton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,096 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #260.
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Brenton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 70 boys in 2025. Peak: #260 in 1984 · most boys in one year: 799 (1984).
In 2025, 70 US boys were named Brenton, making it the 2,096th most common boys’ name of the year, down 137 places from #1,959 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 80 boys named Brenton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #260, reached in 1984. That year also had the most boys given the name: 799. For comparison, it was #1,119 in 2015 and #1,204 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brenton in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 7 babies. In all, 15,117 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 4,353 babies named Brenton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,143 US boys were named Brenton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 169. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,401 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brenton ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,057 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Brenten, Brinton and Brentyn 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: Brenten (879), Brinton (805), Brentyn (236), Brentton (182), Brentin (181), Brentan (36), Brynton (16), Brentten (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 Brenton 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,057 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,118 | #549 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,114 | #1,297 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 70 | #2,096 |
| 2024 | — | — | 80 | #1,959 |
| 2023 | — | — | 102 | #1,671 |
| 2022 | — | — | 83 | #1,893 |
| 2021 | — | — | 81 | #1,887 |
| 2020 | — | — | 95 | #1,673 |
| 2019 | — | — | 150 | #1,252 |
| 2018 | — | — | 156 | #1,204 |
| 2017 | — | — | 157 | #1,186 |
| 2016 | — | — | 169 | #1,141 |
| 2015 | — | — | 171 | #1,119 |
| 2014 | — | — | 199 | #1,022 |
| 2013 | — | — | 201 | #989 |
| 2012 | — | — | 227 | #910 |
| 2011 | — | — | 228 | #898 |
| 2010 | — | — | 190 | #1,020 |
| 2009 | — | — | 232 | #896 |
| 2008 | — | — | 203 | #980 |
| 2007 | — | — | 196 | #994 |
| 2006 | — | — | 196 | #948 |
| 2005 | — | — | 187 | #935 |
| 2004 | — | — | 198 | #877 |
| 2003 | — | — | 208 | #836 |
| 2002 | — | — | 199 | #837 |
| 2001 | — | — | 211 | #796 |
| 2000 | — | — | 244 | #715 |
| 1999 | — | — | 261 | #663 |
| 1998 | — | — | 252 | #677 |
| 1997 | — | — | 276 | #624 |
| 1996 | — | — | 318 | #572 |
| 1995 | — | — | 299 | #596 |
| 1994 | — | — | 320 | #576 |
| 1993 | — | — | 330 | #562 |
| 1992 | — | — | 353 | #541 |
| 1991 | — | — | 369 | #518 |
| 1990 | — | — | 444 | #469 |
| 1989 | — | — | 447 | #445 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,031 | 502 | #396 |
| 1987 | — | — | 503 | #383 |
| 1986 | — | — | 601 | #330 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,429 | 603 | #328 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,256 | 799 | #260 |
| 1983 | — | — | 250 | #527 |
| 1982 | — | — | 255 | #534 |
| 1981 | — | — | 186 | #628 |
| 1980 | — | — | 189 | #634 |
| 1979 | — | — | 184 | #634 |
| 1978 | — | — | 134 | #727 |
| 1977 | — | — | 177 | #636 |
| 1976 | — | — | 140 | #700 |
| 1975 | — | — | 145 | #684 |
| 1974 | — | — | 147 | #669 |
| 1973 | — | — | 171 | #605 |
| 1972 | — | — | 153 | #641 |
| 1971 | — | — | 173 | #630 |
| 1970 | — | — | 184 | #596 |
| 1969 | — | — | 144 | #656 |
| 1968 | — | — | 156 | #609 |
| 1967 | — | — | 82 | #803 |
| 1966 | — | — | 64 | #901 |
| 1965 | — | — | 45 | #1,109 |
| 1964 | — | — | 53 | #1,035 |
| 1963 | — | — | 53 | #1,039 |
| 1962 | — | — | 44 | #1,173 |
| 1961 | — | — | 42 | #1,223 |
| 1960 | — | — | 38 | #1,274 |
| 1959 | — | — | 41 | #1,213 |
| 1958 | — | — | 36 | #1,278 |
| 1957 | — | — | 36 | #1,300 |
| 1956 | — | — | 24 | #1,613 |
| 1955 | — | — | 21 | #1,689 |
| 1954 | — | — | 34 | #1,292 |
| 1953 | — | — | 32 | #1,334 |
| 1952 | — | — | 23 | #1,586 |
| 1951 | — | — | 28 | #1,411 |
| 1950 | — | — | 36 | #1,204 |
| 1949 | — | — | 40 | #1,112 |
| 1948 | — | — | 12 | #2,230 |
| 1947 | — | — | 25 | #1,487 |
| 1946 | — | — | 25 | #1,412 |
| 1945 | — | — | 21 | #1,450 |
| 1944 | — | — | 17 | #1,686 |
| 1943 | — | — | 16 | #1,845 |
| 1942 | — | — | 20 | #1,592 |
| 1941 | — | — | 16 | #1,764 |
| 1940 | — | — | 23 | #1,404 |
| 1939 | — | — | 15 | #1,802 |
| 1938 | — | — | 14 | #1,910 |
| 1937 | — | — | 11 | #2,218 |
| 1936 | — | — | 17 | #1,648 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,740 |
| 1934 | — | — | 11 | #2,283 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,039 |
| 1932 | — | — | 13 | #2,109 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,677 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,461 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,465 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,534 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,189 |
| 1926 | — | — | 10 | #2,745 |
| 1925 | — | — | 13 | #2,325 |
| 1924 | — | — | 14 | #2,243 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #3,868 |
| 1921 | — | — | 11 | #2,653 |
| 1920 | — | — | 14 | #2,236 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,696 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,138 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #2,986 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,125 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,073 |
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).