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Breanna vs Brenten

American parents have registered 82,440 Breannas since 1880, against 879 Brentens. Breanna is still ahead, with 69 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Breanna against Brenten, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Breanna Brenten

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Breanna for 54 years and Brenten for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Breanna Brenten
Total US births 82,440879
Most in one year 4,70133
Babies in 2025 69under 5
Estimated living today 81,000850
Median age today 2726
Peak year 19962010
Best rank 74th girls3,308th boys
Rank in 2025 2,542ndunranked
First recorded 19651969
Girls / boys 82,375 / 650 / 879

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Breanna and Brenten.