girls:
42 births since 1986
#5674 (1st percentile)
boys:
25.6k births since 1956
#717 (84th percentile)
overall:
25.7k births since 1956
#1577 (80th percentile)
The name Brenden is the #1,577 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,651 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 79.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #717 (84.4% percentile) for all time with 25,609 births since 1956. For girls, it ranks #5,674 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 1986.
Brenden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for boys and 1986 for girls).
The name Brenden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brenden reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 71.3% percentile (ranked #234) with 668 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 668 births per million (ranked 71.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2002, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brenden ranks #858 for boys (5.8% percentile) with 32 births per million, which is 4.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brenden reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #810) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% 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 "Brenden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brenden is pronounced as BREHN-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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