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Brenn

Gender
Girl
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BREN
Origin
Irish

Brenn is a girls' name of Irish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Brenn come from?

Irish: short form of Brenna or Brennan

Is Brenn a girl's or a boy's name?

Brenn is a girls' name.

How popular is Brenn in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2022, with 8 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989.

Half of all the girls named Brenn in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

1989Busiest: 8 in 20222024
Brenn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20246#13,472
20230–
20228#11,225
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20145#16,507
20136#14,577
20120–
20115#16,756
20105#16,985
20090–
20080–
20070–
20060–
20050–
20040–
20030–
20020–
20016#13,514
20006#13,147
19996#12,681
19980–
19975#13,719
19960–
19950–
19940–
19937#10,581
19920–
19910–
19907#10,187
19896#10,841

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Brenn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/brenn, updated 20 October 2026.