Bren — #9101 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Bren

The Social Security Administration has registered 555 babies named Bren between 1956 and 2024, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bren currently holds the #9101 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Bren is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 174 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bren performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 116 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Bren shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Bren in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bren in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 555 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.