Meaning and history
From a surname derived from an English place name meaning “Bryni’s town,” with Bryni being an Old English name meaning “fire.”
20062006: 196 births, rank #948
2007: 196 births, rank #994
2008: 203 births, rank #979
2009: 232 births, rank #896
2010: 190 births, rank #1,019
20112011: 228 births, rank #898
2012: 227 births, rank #909
2013: 201 births, rank #988
2014: 199 births, rank #1,022
2015: 171 births, rank #1,119
20162016: 169 births, rank #1,141
2017: 157 births, rank #1,186
2018: 156 births, rank #1,202
2019: 150 births, rank #1,251
2020: 95 births, rank #1,673
20212021: 81 births, rank #1,884
2022: 83 births, rank #1,892
2023: 102 births, rank #1,668
2024: 80 births, rank #1,957
20252025: 70 births, rank #2,091
Brenton moved from #910 to #989 for boys between 2012 and 2013. Its highest annual birth count came in 1984, with 799 births.