Brenda · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Brenda.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1939

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 66 recorded years as a table

Brenda, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1939	17
1940	16
1941	26
1942	20
1943	15
1944	21
1945	20
1946	21
1947	20
1948	22
1949	24
1950	23
1951	23
1952	23
1953	25
1954	19
1955	19
1956	17
1957	26
1958	21
1959	25
1960	30
1961	34
1962	31
1963	26
1964	23
1965	30
1966	24
1967	22
1968	24
1969	20
1970	11
1971	15
1972	16
1973	13
1974	11
1975	16
1976	11
1977	10
1978	9
1979	13
1980	13
1981	17
1982	14
1983	17
1984	17
1985	19
1986	27
1987	25
1988	22
1989	22
1990	16
1991	22
1992	14
1993	18
1994	14
1995	15
1996	6
1997	6
1998	5
2001	3
2002	3
2003	4
2004	6
2005	4
2007	2

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Brenda isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2007: 5
Rank in 2007: #12,367
How rare: 1 in 415,082 boys
Since 1939: 2,119

Brenda was last recorded in 2007. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1961, at 34 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Brenda doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.