Brenner
Last seen for girls in 2016 at #16,215 · #4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2008 · 76 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,222since 1979
Brenner over time
Rank among boys' names. Brenner has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #4,539 | 22 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,072 | 26 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,220 | 25 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,019 | 19 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,780 | 20 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,698 | 20 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,340 | 17 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,607 | 30 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,993 | 26 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #2,838 | 42 |
| 2015 | — | #3,231 | 35 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,985 | 38 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,763 | 42 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,104 | 64 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,035 | 66 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,402 | 52 |
| 2009 | — | #1,910 | 75 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,899 | 76 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,185 | 61 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,932 | 38 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,752 | 39 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,741 | 38 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,729 | 36 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,755 | 34 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,429 | 40 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,621 | 35 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,103 | 26 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,823 | 27 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,911 | 25 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,559 | 18 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,911 | 16 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,501 | 18 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
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| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
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| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brenner! It came in at #6,056, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1984, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brenner
- 467 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #4,539)
- 159 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #4,539)
- 1,308 spots since 2015 (#3,231 → #4,539)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2008 at #1,899 (76 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,448 boys born in 2009 were named Brenner (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,899 in 2008, was only 1 in 26,844 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.6% of all boys named Brenner (472) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 22 | #4,968 (1987) | #5,448 |
| 1990s | 179 | #2,823 (1997) | #4,097 |
| 2000s | 472 | #1,899 (2008) | #2,495 |
| 2010s | 412 | #2,035 (2011) | #3,130 |
| 2020s | 132 | #4,072 (2024) | #4,555 |
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.
Brenner in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 354,404 of them was named Brenner, which outranked 14.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 45,184 of them was named Brenner, which outranked 80.0% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,783Taim43
- #2,783Weldon43
- #2,783Zaki43
- #2,838Brenner42
- #2,838Andrik42
- #2,838Atharva42
- #2,838Beauregard42
- #2,885Abimael41
- #2,885Anibal41
- #2,885Armand41
Tied with 46 names at #2,838; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.