girls:
325 births since 1968
#5391 (6th percentile)
boys:
91.4k births since 1912
#327 (93rd percentile)
overall:
91.7k births since 1912
#729 (91st percentile)
The name Brendan is the #729 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 91,711 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 90.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #327 (92.9% percentile) for all time with 91,386 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,391 (5.7% percentile) for all time with 325 births since 1968.
Brendan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1968 for girls).
The name Brendan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brendan reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 88.2% percentile (ranked #96) with 1,959 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 1,959 births per million (ranked 88.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brendan ranks #657 for boys (27.9% percentile) with 143 births per million, which is 7.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brendan reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #851) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brendan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brendan is pronounced as BREHN-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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