Girl
Brenna
As a girl's name, Brenna is understood to mean "Feminine of Brennan". 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. Since 1900, roughly 28,244 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.
EtymologyFeminine of Brennan
Etymology"Raven-haired"; or "descendant of the sorrowful one"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
39
1950s
254
1960s
544
1970s
1,648
1980s
4,188
1990s
9,202
2000s
8,996
2010s
3,373
Peaked in the 1990s · 28,244 total U.S. births since 1900