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How popular is “Brendan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brendan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brendan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Brendan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Brendan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Brendan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Brendan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brendan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 -100%
1914 13 0.000009179 13 -100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 -100%
1917 12 0.00000598 12 -100%
1918 10 0.000004606 10 -100%
1919 16 0.000007582 16 -100%
1920 11 0.000004862 11 -100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 -100%
1922 15 0.000006553 15 -100%
1923 21 0.000009121 21 -100%
1924 17 0.000007138 17 -100%
1925 20 0.000008572 20 -100%
1926 19 0.000008276 19 -100%
1927 18 0.000007761 18 -100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 -100%
1929 17 0.000007755 17 -100%
1930 21 0.000009445 21 -100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 -100%
1932 25 0.000011841 25 -100%
1933 24 0.000012003 24 -100%
1934 33 0.00001589 33 -100%
1935 34 0.000016269 34 -100%
1936 40 0.000019253 40 -100%
1937 36 0.000016896 36 -100%
1938 33 0.000014915 33 -100%
1939 32 0.000014523 32 -100%
1940 32 0.000013897 32 -100%
1941 43 0.000017649 43 -100%
1942 37 0.000013544 37 -100%
1943 55 0.000019486 55 -100%
1944 39 0.000014498 39 -100%
1945 48 0.000018093 48 -100%
1946 49 0.000015335 49 -100%
1947 39 0.000010826 39 -100%
1948 51 0.000014772 51 -100%
1949 51 0.000014635 51 -100%
1950 61 0.000017412 61 -100%
1951 54 0.000014659 54 -100%
1952 66 0.000017378 66 -100%
1953 78 0.000020241 78 -100%
1954 68 0.000017082 68 -100%
1955 98 0.000024408 98 -100%
1956 114 0.00002765 114 -100%
1957 144 0.000034268 144 -100%
1958 123 0.000029754 123 -100%
1959 178 0.000042809 178 -100%
1960 217 0.000052241 217 -100%
1961 241 0.00005818 241 -100%
1962 240 0.000059474 240 -100%
1963 245 0.000061897 245 -100%
1964 288 0.000074082 288 -100%
1965 307 0.000084679 307 -100%
1966 489 0.000140693 489 -100%
1967 444 0.000130785 444 -100%
1968 501 0.000148294 5 496 -98%
1969 470 0.000135239 470 -100%
1970 568 0.000157493 568 -100%
1971 543 0.0001582 543 -100%
1972 503 0.000160038 503 -100%
1973 552 0.00018297 552 -100%
1974 642 0.000211184 11 631 -97%
1975 660 0.000218587 6 654 -98%
1976 826 0.000272221 826 -100%
1977 778 0.000244924 10 768 -97%
1978 902 0.000284196 7 895 -98%
1979 996 0.000299369 5 991 -99%
1980 1113 0.000323123 11 1102 -98%
1981 1158 0.000334743 1158 -100%
1982 1206 0.000343789 8 1198 -99%
1983 1283 0.000370452 7 1276 -99%
1984 1346 0.000385811 14 1332 -98%
1985 1395 0.000390854 11 1384 -98%
1986 1417 0.000398361 16 1401 -98%
1987 1825 0.000506155 17 1808 -98%
1988 1809 0.000489575 13 1796 -99%
1989 2159 0.000561589 13 2146 -99%
1990 2005 0.000507277 9 1996 -99%
1991 2189 0.000561964 2189 -100%
1992 2310 0.000601363 12 2298 -99%
1993 2321 0.000615604 19 2302 -98%
1994 2740 0.000737024 10 2730 -99%
1995 2702 0.000737817 11 2691 -99%
1996 2828 0.00077539 16 2812 -99%
1997 3633 0.001002 12 3621 -99%
1998 3888 0.001057037 10 3878 -99%
1999 4004 0.001083959 10 3994 -100%
2000 3667 0.00097013 10 3657 -99%
2001 3350 0.000894911 5 3345 -100%
2002 3151 0.000842899 10 3141 -99%
2003 2872 0.000755329 5 2867 -100%
2004 2736 0.000716057 17 2719 -99%
2005 2367 0.000615629 7 2360 -99%
2006 2171 0.00054876 2171 -100%
2007 1927 0.000482029 1927 -100%
2008 1895 0.000482107 8 1887 -99%
2009 1762 0.000461235 1762 -100%
2010 1527 0.000413179 1527 -100%
2011 1315 0.000359506 1315 -100%
2012 1149 0.00031416 1149 -100%
2013 1009 0.000276767 1009 -100%
2014 922 0.000248761 922 -100%
2015 825 0.000222918 825 -100%
2016 688 0.000187532 688 -100%
2017 560 0.000156591 560 -100%
2018 490 0.000139367 490 -100%
2019 422 0.000121581 422 -100%
2020 343 0.000102677 343 -100%
2021 327 0.000096519 327 -100%
2022 269 0.000079512 269 -100%
2023 262 0.000079125 262 -100%
2024 221 0.000066396 221 -100%

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