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Brendan

Brendan is a boy's name meaning "Irish Bréanainn", drawing on Irish roots. It is not as common as it was in the 1990s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.

IrishIrish "Bréanainn"
EtymologyMeaning "prince" (disputed alt. "stinking hair")
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
85
1920s
166
1930s
289
1940s
445
1950s
982
1960s
3,443
1970s
6,986
1980s
14,701
1990s
28,617
2000s
25,892
2010s
7,976
Peaked in the 1990s · 89,582 total U.S. births since 1900