Brenton
Brenton was given to 70 boys in 2025, #2,096 among boys’ names; 15,117 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,900 Americans named Brenton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 22 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brenton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brenton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brenton is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brenton?
#2,096 among boys’ names, 2025
Brenton fell from #1,119 in 2015 to #2,096 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 89.2 to 41.0 per million.
806 babies in 1984, the peak
Brenton peaked in 1984, when 806 babies were given it (799 boys, #260 among boys’ names). The 70 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,096 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 80 | #1,959 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 102 | #1,671 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 83 | #1,892 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 81 | #1,886 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,673 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 150 | #1,252 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 156 | #1,204 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 157 | #1,186 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 169 | #1,141 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 171 | #1,119 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 199 | #1,022 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 201 | #989 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 227 | #910 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 228 | #898 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 190 | #1,020 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 232 | #896 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 203 | #980 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 196 | #994 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 196 | #948 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 187 | #935 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 198 | #876 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 208 | #835 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 199 | #836 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 211 | #795 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 244 | #714 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 261 | #661 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 252 | #677 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 276 | #624 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 318 | #572 | 0.17 |
| 1995 | 299 | #595 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 320 | #575 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 330 | #561 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 353 | #541 | 0.18 |
| 1991 | 369 | #518 | 0.18 |
| 1990 | 444 | #468 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 447 | #445 | 0.22 |
| 1988 | 502 | #396 | 0.26 |
| 1987 | 503 | #383 | 0.27 |
| 1986 | 601 | #330 | 0.33 |
| 1985 | 603 | #328 | 0.33 |
| 1984 | 799 | #260 | 0.44 |
| 1983 | 250 | #527 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 255 | #534 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 186 | #628 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 189 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 184 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 134 | #727 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 177 | #636 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 140 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 145 | #684 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 147 | #669 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 171 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 153 | #641 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 173 | #630 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 184 | #596 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 144 | #656 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 156 | #609 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 82 | #803 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 64 | #901 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,109 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 53 | #1,035 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 53 | #1,038 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,172 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 42 | #1,222 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,273 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,212 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,277 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,299 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 24 | #1,612 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 21 | #1,688 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,291 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,333 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 23 | #1,585 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,410 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,203 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 40 | #1,111 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,229 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,486 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,411 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,449 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 17 | #1,685 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,844 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,592 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,764 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,404 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 15 | #1,802 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,910 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,218 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,648 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,740 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,283 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,038 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,109 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,676 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,459 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,464 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,534 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,188 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,743 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,324 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,243 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #3,865 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,652 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,235 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,695 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,137 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #2,985 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,124 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,072 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brenton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brenton has been given almost only to boys: 18 girls in 110 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brenton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brenton, and how old are they?
13,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 15,117 Americans ever recorded as Brenton. The median Brenton alive today is 35 years old; half are between 22 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 11,836 people named Brenton (39 women and girls, 11,797 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,737 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 57 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 438 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,040 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,260 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,700 |
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).
Where are babies named Brenton born?
The states with the most babies named Brenton are California, Texas and Georgia, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,229 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 966 | #2,114 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 761 | #1,118 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 674 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 640 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 526 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 498 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 431 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 429 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 387 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Brenton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brenton is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1912 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brenton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 16,595 babies since 1880, Brenton is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 70 babies (100%), 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 Brenton
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 Brenton and names like it
- Compare Brenton and BrentenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBrenton peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brenton since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Brenton: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Brenton.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brenton alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.