Brenon
Brenon was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 266 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brenon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brenon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,401, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2008, the peak
Brenon peaked in 2008, when 16 boys were given it, #5,519 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #12,401 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,970 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,007 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,133 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,856 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,519 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,102 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,824 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,699 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,127 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 10 | #6,784 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,563 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,062 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,522 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,595 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,506 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,472 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,042 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,071 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,560 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,898 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,191 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,004 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,691 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,036 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,182 | 5.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,504 | 4.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,353 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,452 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brenon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brenon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brenon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brenon, and how old are they?
An estimated 258 Americans named Brenon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 303 people named Brenon (10 women and girls, 293 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 261 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Brenon?
Brenon is a less common spelling of Brennon: SSA has recorded 266 Brenon and 4,382 Brennon since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 54,501 babies since 1880, Brenon is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 318 babies recorded by SSA was a Brenon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Brenon
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 Brenon and names like it
- Compare Brenon and BrennonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrenon peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Brenon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brenon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.