Brenner
Brenner was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,562 among boys’ names; 1,232 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Brenner and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brenner by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brenner?
#4,562 among boys’ names, 2025
Brenner fell from #3,238 in 2015 to #4,562 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.3 to 12.9 per million.
76 babies in 2008, the peak
Brenner peaked in 2008, when 76 boys were given it, #1,901 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,562 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,091 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,238 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,042 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,798 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,718 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,378 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,611 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,003 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,840 | 22.1 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #3,238 | 18.3 |
| 2014 | 38 | #2,988 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 42 | #2,767 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,105 | 33.7 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,037 | 34.8 |
| 2010 | 52 | #2,407 | 27.1 |
| 2009 | 75 | #1,911 | 37.8 |
| 2008 | 76 | #1,901 | 37.3 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,189 | 29.4 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,939 | 18.5 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,753 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,745 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,735 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,758 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,430 | 20.6 |
| 2000 | 35 | #2,623 | 17.8 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,111 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,200 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,827 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,922 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,564 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,921 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,507 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,902 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,370 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,887 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,291 | 3.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,019 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,204 | 3.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,158 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brenner a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brenner has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 40 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brenner: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brenner, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,232 Americans ever recorded as Brenner. The median Brenner alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,170 people named Brenner (46 women and girls, 1,124 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,092 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 119 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 725 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 364 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,298 babies since 1880, Brenner is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 29 babies (76%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brenner
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Brenner and names like it
- Compare Brenner and BreynerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrenner peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brenner since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Brenner.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brenner alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.