girls:
174 births since 1980
#5542 (3rd percentile)
boys:
547 births since 1956
#4039 (12th percentile)
overall:
721 births since 1956
#7018 (9th percentile)
The name Bren is the #7,018 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 721 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 9.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,039 (11.9% percentile) for all time with 547 births since 1956. For girls, it ranks #5,542 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 174 births since 1980.
Bren first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for boys and 1980 for girls). Birth data for Bren is available in 61 out of the 68 years between 1956 and 2023 (61 years for boys and 23 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bren has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Bren were boys.
For boys, Bren reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #743) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Bren ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 57.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Bren reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #879) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bren".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bren. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Bren is pronounced as brehn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is brehn, at 9.1% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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