Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Brenna” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brenna” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brenna” 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 “Brenna” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brenna” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brenna” 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
1946 7 0.000002191 7 100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 100%
1948 16 0.000004634 16 100%
1949 11 0.000003157 11 100%
1950 18 0.000005138 18 100%
1951 24 0.000006515 24 100%
1952 28 0.000007372 28 100%
1953 27 0.000007006 27 100%
1954 41 0.0000103 41 100%
1955 37 0.000009215 37 100%
1956 24 0.000005821 24 100%
1957 16 0.000003808 16 100%
1958 18 0.000004354 18 100%
1959 21 0.000005051 21 100%
1960 21 0.000005056 21 100%
1961 24 0.000005794 24 100%
1962 35 0.000008673 35 100%
1963 48 0.000012127 48 100%
1964 51 0.000013119 51 100%
1965 60 0.00001655 60 100%
1966 52 0.000014961 52 100%
1967 59 0.000017379 59 100%
1968 95 0.00002812 95 100%
1969 99 0.000028487 99 100%
1970 120 0.000033273 120 100%
1971 135 0.000039332 135 100%
1972 112 0.000035635 112 100%
1973 134 0.000044417 134 100%
1974 167 0.000054934 167 100%
1975 188 0.000062264 188 100%
1976 185 0.00006097 185 100%
1977 183 0.000057611 183 100%
1978 212 0.000066795 212 100%
1979 211 0.00006342 211 100%
1980 300 0.000087095 300 100%
1981 331 0.000095682 331 100%
1982 316 0.000090081 316 100%
1983 366 0.000105678 366 100%
1984 411 0.000117807 411 100%
1985 453 0.000126922 453 100%
1986 440 0.000123697 440 100%
1987 489 0.000135622 489 100%
1988 527 0.000142624 527 100%
1989 554 0.000144104 554 100%
1990 605 0.000153069 605 100%
1991 661 0.000169693 661 100%
1992 725 0.00018874 725 100%
1993 739 0.000196007 739 100%
1994 1002 0.000269525 1002 100%
1995 1212 0.000330953 1212 100%
1996 1149 0.000315037 1149 100%
1997 1035 0.000285458 1035 100%
1998 1047 0.00028465 1047 100%
1999 1027 0.000278028 1027 100%
2000 1023 0.000270642 1023 100%
2001 960 0.000256452 960 100%
2002 924 0.000247172 924 100%
2003 1036 0.000272465 1036 100%
2004 966 0.000252818 966 100%
2005 885 0.000230178 885 100%
2006 845 0.000213589 845 100%
2007 886 0.000221628 886 100%
2008 766 0.000194878 766 100%
2009 709 0.000185594 709 100%
2010 644 0.000174255 644 100%
2011 576 0.000157472 576 100%
2012 458 0.000125227 458 100%
2013 417 0.000114382 417 100%
2014 362 0.00009767 362 100%
2015 356 0.000096193 356 100%
2016 304 0.000082863 304 100%
2017 260 0.000072703 260 100%
2018 232 0.000065986 232 100%
2019 175 0.000050419 175 100%
2020 149 0.000044603 149 100%
2021 154 0.000045455 154 100%
2022 118 0.000034879 118 100%
2023 92 0.000027785 92 100%
2024 93 0.000027941 93 100%

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