Brenna
Brenna is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 93 births. Its best rank was 235th, in 1995.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 930.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19951,212 births
- Best rank
- #235in 1995
- Since 1946
- 29,263people given the name
The story in the numbers
29,263 girls have been named Brenna in the United States since 1946, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 1,212 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 31%. It has spent 46 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Brenna | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 39 | |
| 1950s | 254 | |
| 1960s | 544 | |
| 1970s | 1,647 | |
| 1980s | 4,187 | |
| 1990s | 9,202 | |
| 2000s | 9,000 | |
| 2010s | 3,784 | |
| 2020s | 606 |
In 1995, its biggest year
Brenna was the 235th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1995 were Jessica, Ashley, Emily, Samantha and Sarah. See all of 1995.
Names that rose and fell with Brenna
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Teonnapeak 1996
- Raeannapeak 1999
- Keianapeak 1999
- Shalynnpeak 1995
- Vanesapeak 2002
- Noemypeak 2001
- Shaelapeak 2000
- Shaylapeak 1999
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.