Brenden
Last seen for girls in 2008 at #17,504 · #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 1,316 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 25,715since 1956
Brenden over time
Rank among boys' names. Brenden has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,884 | 43 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,502 | 54 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,290 | 61 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,965 | 78 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,621 | 104 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,451 | 119 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,365 | 131 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,135 | 170 | |
| 2017 | — | #993 | 205 | |
| 2016 | — | #999 | 204 | |
| 2015 | — | #897 | 242 | |
| 2014 | — | #706 | 345 | |
| 2013 | — | #590 | 430 | |
| 2012 | — | #499 | 533 | |
| 2011 | — | #463 | 579 | |
| 2010 | — | #382 | 753 | |
| 2009 | — | #351 | 891 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #352 | 898 |
| 2007 | — | #318 | 1,004 | |
| 2006 | — | #316 | 1,011 | |
| 2005 | — | #323 | 1,002 | |
| 2004 | — | #278 | 1,145 | |
| 2003 | — | #266 | 1,184 | |
| 2002 | — | #259 | 1,240 | |
| 2001 | — | #267 | 1,221 | |
| 2000 | — | #243 | 1,394 | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #242 | 1,316 |
| 1998 | — | #245 | 1,267 | |
| 1997 | — | #255 | 1,109 | |
| 1996 | — | #293 | 908 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #349 | 705 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #337 | 731 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #405 | 571 |
| 1992 | — | #435 | 509 | |
| 1991 | — | #466 | 451 | |
| 1990 | — | #517 | 363 | |
| 1989 | — | #549 | 313 | |
| 1988 | — | #532 | 295 | |
| 1987 | — | #538 | 285 | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | #631 | 202 |
| 1985 | — | #728 | 147 | |
| 1984 | — | #669 | 168 | |
| 1983 | — | #763 | 128 | |
| 1982 | — | #809 | 119 | |
| 1981 | — | #870 | 104 | |
| 1980 | — | #878 | 103 | |
| 1979 | — | #952 | 86 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,149 | 59 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,012 | 72 | |
| 1976 | — | #990 | 71 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,007 | 66 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,244 | 45 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,147 | 51 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,163 | 49 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,289 | 42 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,494 | 32 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,198 | 43 | |
| 1968 | — | #898 | 64 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,181 | 40 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,027 | 50 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,386 | 31 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,975 | 17 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,539 | 11 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,504 | 11 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,037 | 8 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,969 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brenden! It came in at #2,969, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1958, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brenden
- 382 spots since 2024 (#2,502 → #2,884)
- 1,433 spots since 2020 (#1,451 → #2,884)
- 1,987 spots since 2015 (#897 → #2,884)
- Biggest jump: 283 spots in 1968 (#1,181 → #898)
- Biggest drop: 300 spots in 1969 (#898 → #1,198)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1999 at #242 (1,316 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 41 yrs · run 1979–2017
- Highest: 1 in 1,409 boys born in 2000 were named Brenden (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #242 in 1999, was only 1 in 1,459 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.7% of all boys named Brenden (10,990) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 28 | #2,969 (1956) | #3,319 |
| 1960s | 279 | #898 (1968) | #2,010 |
| 1970s | 573 | #952 (1979) | #1,145 |
| 1980s | 1,864 | #532 (1988) | #697 |
| 1990s | 7,930 | #242 (1999) | #354 |
| 2000s | 10,990 | #243 (2000) | #297 |
| 2010s | 3,592 | #382 (2010) | #803 |
| 2020s | 459 | #1,451 (2020) | #2,119 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brenden in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 190,616 of them was named Brenden, which outranked 44.4% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,612Zanetta10
- #6,612Zaynab10
- #6,612Zully10
- #7,134Brenden9
- #7,134Aarin9
- #7,134Aarti9
- #7,134Adel9
- #7,749Aamber8
- #7,749Abbigayle8
- #7,749Abigael8
Tied with 614 names at #7,134; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 9,116 of them was named Brenden, which outranked 91.9% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.