Brenda — #1137 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Brenda

The Social Security Administration has registered 608,331 babies named Brenda between 1897 and 2024, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Brenda currently holds the #1137 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 24,338 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brenda performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 209,243 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Brenda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 48,637 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Brenda in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brenda 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 608,331 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.