girls:
178 births since 1976
#5538 (3rd percentile)
boys:
9k births since 1962
#1244 (73rd percentile)
overall:
9.2k births since 1962
#2817 (64th percentile)
The name Brennen is the #2,817 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,164 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 63.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,244 (72.9% percentile) for all time with 8,986 births since 1962. For girls, it ranks #5,538 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 178 births since 1976.
Brennen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (1962 for boys and 1976 for girls). Birth data for Brennen is available in 60 out of the 62 years between 1962 and 2023 (60 years for boys and 24 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 Brennen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brennen reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 43.4% percentile (ranked #510) with 215 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 215 births per million (ranked 43.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brennen ranks #882 for boys (3.2% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 8.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brennen reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #975) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brennen".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Brennen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.9% confident that Brennen is pronounced as BREH-nuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BREH-nihn, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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