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.
Where Brenden is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Michigan#113 · 1 in 559
- Montana#122 · 1 in 447
- Connecticut#148 · 1 in 879
- Oregon#155 · 1 in 667
- New Hampshire#157 · 1 in 992
Best ever in a state: #74 in Wyoming, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | #113 | 106 | 1 in 559 |
| Montana | #122 | 9 | 1 in 447 |
| Connecticut | #148 | 21 | 1 in 879 |
| Oregon | #155 | 29 | 1 in 667 |
| New Hampshire | #157 | 6 | 1 in 992 |
| Rhode Island | #165 | 5 | 1 in 1,046 |
| Nebraska | #166 | 12 | 1 in 813 |
| Minnesota | #169 | 27 | 1 in 1,068 |
| Missouri | #169 | 35 | 1 in 983 |
| Massachusetts | #173 | 28 | 1 in 1,296 |
| Oklahoma | #174 | 23 | 1 in 874 |
| Washington | #176 | 40 | 1 in 843 |
| South Dakota | #177 | 5 | 1 in 775 |
| Kansas | #185 | 17 | 1 in 910 |
| Iowa | #187 | 15 | 1 in 1,084 |
| Nevada | #193 | 12 | 1 in 891 |
| Wisconsin | #195 | 22 | 1 in 1,306 |
| Colorado | #199 | 26 | 1 in 962 |
| Hawaii | #203 | 6 | 1 in 878 |
| West Virginia | #206 | 7 | 1 in 1,325 |
| Ohio | #208 | 49 | 1 in 1,429 |
| Indiana | #210 | 29 | 1 in 1,286 |
| Idaho | #213 | 8 | 1 in 934 |
| Utah | #219 | 17 | 1 in 1,125 |
| Illinois | #222 | 61 | 1 in 1,306 |
| Pennsylvania | #226 | 38 | 1 in 1,737 |
| Virginia | #227 | 26 | 1 in 1,485 |
| Arizona | #254 | 24 | 1 in 1,431 |
| New Mexico | #256 | 8 | 1 in 1,332 |
| Kentucky | #257 | 12 | 1 in 1,935 |
| Maryland | #279 | 15 | 1 in 1,874 |
| Arkansas | #304 | 8 | 1 in 1,833 |
| Florida | #312 | 43 | 1 in 1,997 |
| New York | #321 | 51 | 1 in 2,253 |
| California | #330 | 103 | 1 in 2,384 |
| Texas | #338 | 71 | 1 in 2,212 |
| Georgia | #360 | 21 | 1 in 2,390 |
| North Carolina | #410 | 15 | 1 in 3,134 |
| New Jersey | #411 | 13 | 1 in 3,699 |
| Louisiana | #434 | 10 | 1 in 2,687 |
| Alabama | #440 | 7 | 1 in 3,512 |
| Tennessee | #559 | 6 | 1 in 5,778 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
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1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 1,700 of them was named Brenden, which outranked 97.6% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.