girls:
29.2k births since 1946
#834 (85th percentile)
overall:
29.2k births since 1946
#1495 (81st percentile)
The name Brenna is the #1,495 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,170 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 80.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #834 (85.4% percentile) for all time with 29,170 births since 1946.
Brenna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (first recorded for girls in 1946).
For girls, Brenna reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 73.3% percentile (ranked #227) with 631 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 631 births per million (ranked 73.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Brenna ranks #860 for girls (9.2% percentile) with 53 births per million, which is 8.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brenna".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brenna is pronounced as BREH-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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