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Brena

About 794 American babies have been named Brena since 1950, most of them around 2007. It has not appeared in the national data since 2021. About 770 Brenas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Brena

By the numbers

Total US births
794
Estimated living today
770
Median age today
25
Peak year
2007
Best rank
4,213th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1950

How old the living Brenas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 794 babies given the name since 1950, about 770 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Brena is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular girls’ names the year Brena peaked:

All the names of 2007

Related names

Brena against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.