as a First Name
Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the Irish surname, Gaelic Ó Braonáin ‘descendant of Braonán’. The latter is a personal name derived from a diminutive of braon ‘moisture, drop’. It may also be taken as a contracted form of Brendan.
| 2,658th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,646
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 23,787
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Brennan per capita
- 2009
- marked the height of its popularity
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