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Brendin vs Brett

American parents have registered 162,513 Bretts since 1880, against 711 Brendins. Brett is still ahead, with 144 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Brendin Brett

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

Brett has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1926 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Brendin had 17 and Brett had 370.

Side by side

  Brendin Brett
Total US births 711162,513
Most in one year 454,904
Babies in 2025 under 5144
Estimated living today 700149,000
Median age today 2340
Peak year 20031986
Best rank 2,349th boys69th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,382nd
First recorded 19831926
Girls / boys 0 / 7113,404 / 159,109

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Bretts alive today are over 40; half the Brendins are over 23. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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