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Brennon

#5,646 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Brennon has been given to 4,382 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #5,646 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 189 recorded.

Babies named Brennon, 2025

1 in 207,000

Brennon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brennon: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brennon means

Brennon is a given name.

The naming story behind Brennon

Wikidata records Brennon as a given name. The entity identifier is Q128333425, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,382 boys were recorded with the name Brennon between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 189 in 2009; its best national rank was #865 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,554 in 2020 to #5,646 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,150 in 2015 to #5,646 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Brennon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,646
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brennon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brennon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brennons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brennon was born before 2002 — so the typical Brennon is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,382
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (1,485).

Is Brennon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,943
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,092
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,496
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.5%
Peak was 2009 (189)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#865
1999

Spellings of Brennon

Brennon is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 70.0% against Brennon's 0.40%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Brennon is used

Across 1910–2025, Brennon was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 72,711 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 9,091
  2. 2Utah1 in 12,500
  3. 3Kansas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 50,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Brennon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brennon around the world

Where Brennon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1992–2002
    #606
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Brennon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,646
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,092
Best rank ever
#865
1999
Peak year
2009
189 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,382
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Brennon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BreckenBrennenBrentleyBrenonBrentlyBrextonBrendynBrentonBreckinBrennerBrannonBreydenBrettonBrendonBrendenBrewerBreckBrennanBreonBrevinBrekkenKannonBrentleeGannon

Names with a curve like Brennon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Brennon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Brennon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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