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Brennan
Rank in 2024
#1,056
Born in 2024
207
Peak year
2009 · #242
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:18 in 2024 (#6,567)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 207 boys were named Brennan, about 1 in every 8,287.
- It peaked in 2009 with 1,464 babies, ranked #242.
- It first shows up in the records in 1916.
- 33,032 boys have been named Brennan since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Brennan per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.6Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 214 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,342 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Millennials: 7,753 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Gen Z: 18,336 babies, 0.58 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,382 babies, 0.25 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Irish Ó Braonáin (“descendant of Braonán”), a diminutive of braon (“moisture, drop”). Alternatively, from Irish Ó Branáin (“descendant of Branán”), a diminutive of bran (“raven”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.
- A male given name, variant of Brendan.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Brennan, CC BY-SA 4.0.