Brenden
Brenden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 54 births. Its best rank was 242nd, in 1999.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 540.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 20001,394 births
- Best rank
- #242in 1999
- Since 1956
- 25,670people given the name
The story in the numbers
25,670 boys have been named Brenden in the United States since 1956, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 1,394 births.
The name has all but left use: 54 births in 2024, against 1,394 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 43%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2000, its biggest year
Brenden was the 243rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Brenden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Devenpeak 2000
- Niklaspeak 2000
- Traveonpeak 2003
- Marcoantoniopeak 2001
- Jakebpeak 1999
- Dallinpeak 2002
- Kalobpeak 2000
- Trevenpeak 2004
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.