Brenner

Brenner is the 2,365th most common surname in the United States, shared by 15,042 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 19,900.

By the numbers

People: 15,042
Rank: 2,365th
How common: 1 in 19,900
Per 100,000: 5.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Brenner described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Brenner

Sydney Brenner (1927–2019)South African-British biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
Yosef Haim Brenner (1881–1921)Russian-born Hebrew-language author
Ernst Brenner (1856–1911)member of the Swiss Federal Council
Lisa Brenner (born 1974)American actress
David Brenner (1962–2022)American film editor
János Brenner (1931–1957)Hungarian Cistercian and Catholic martyr
Brenner (born 2000)Brazilian footballer
Veronica Brenner (born 1974)freestyle skier

People named Brenner with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Brenner

Also a first name

Brenner has been given to 1,232 American babies as a first name since 1979, peaking in 2008. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.