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Brennan vs Brewer

American parents have registered 35,487 Brennans since 1880, against 1,404 Brewers. But in 2025 it was Brewer that was commoner, 319 babies to 236.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Brennan against Brewer, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Brennan Brewer

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 84 years in which either name was published, Brennan for 75 years and Brewer for 9 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Brennan Brewer
Total US births 35,4871,404
Most in one year 1,550319
Babies in 2025 236319
Estimated living today 35,0001,400
Median age today 223
Peak year 20092025
Best rank 242nd boys804th boys
Rank in 2025 1,002nd804th
First recorded 19161913
Girls / boys 2,229 / 33,25814 / 1,390

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 Brennans alive today are over 22; half the Brewers are over 3. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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