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Boys Named Brendan
This chart illustrates how many Boys were named Brendan in the U.S. since 1880.
Records indicate that at least 76,806 boys have been named Brendan since 1880 in the United States.
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User Comments about the name Brendan
Comment left Jun 09, 2008: "My name is Brendan and people have got my name wrong since the first day of kindergarten. When I first meet someone and tell them my name, I'd say its a 50/50 split on whether or not they get it right, or call me Brandon. It's cool that actors like Brendan Fraser are popular so more people know about this name and get it right more often." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left May 12, 2008: "This is a great old Irish name. St. Brendan the navigator is believed to have found North America before Leif Eriksson from Iceland. St Brendan was a Christian monk who lived in Ireland" (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Feb 15, 2008: ""ew. too easliy confused with brandon" Brandon?! Bleagh! I've met several dozen Brandon's in my life, but only two Brendans. (I was named in 1975.) We're a much rarer breed. I met a Garifuna guy named Brendan in a small village in Belize -- we made an immediate bond.
Incidentally, Saint Brendan, a warrior monk from Ireland was one of the first Europeans to set foot on North America, way back in the 5th Century. However, I read somewhere that in gaellic, Brendan means "dirty hair." That may be apocryphal." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Oct 18, 2007: "In the U.S. people mispronounce and misspell my name all the time. I pretty much answer to anything that sounds remotely close to Brendan. That being said, I love my name and the fact that's it's relatively unique - at least in the States. I rarely meet anyone with the same name as me and when I do I feel a special connection with that person! :-)" (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Feb 11, 2007: "Love the name Brendan. It's always mispronounced; my six-year-old son Brendan already spells his name out when giving it to someone who doesn't know, like at school, because they're constantly calling him Brandon. When he was a baby and people would ask, I tried pronouncing it as "Brindin" so people wouldn't hear a short "a" sound, but I just felt stupid and gave that up. Still love the name though; my name is fairly uncommon and always mispronounced/misspelled so I'm used to it I guess." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Nov 13, 2006: "This is my husbands name. I like it, the only problem is that he gets called Brenda or Brandon a lot." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Jun 19, 2006: "well its my name and it kind of feels akward when i go out in public and someone says my name but everyone that noes my name does not think it is wierd" (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Jun 17, 2006: "I think I speak for all Brendans when I say that we feel far superior to those lesser folk, the Brandons. (We need not even speak of the Brandens, who must have difficulties enough.) Brendan is, demonstrably, the proper spelling for our name, no matter how popular that stupid zip code Fox show was." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Mar 11, 2006: "they mispronounce it as brandon and you tell them BRENDAN but they say it wrong anyway because they don't think you know what your name is" (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Jan 27, 2006: "My name is Brendan, many people say it it is pronounced brendin. many people have difficulties pronouncing my proper name and call me brandin. I have only ever once met someone with my same name in terms of pronunciation and spelling. Although not as common as the improper pronunciation, a common misspelling is Brenden.
Once i met a guy in a gas station. I looked at his tag and thought it said Brendan. When i looked a second time it said Brenden. I gave a noticable sigh as it had gotten my hopes up. They guy at the gas station aked what i was sighing about and i told I thought we had the same name but i was wrong. He then asked what my name was and i told him it was Brendan. He then commeted that his name tag was just a misprint and his name was actually Brendan, i asked him how the real spelling was and it was the same! I made a point of calling him brendan and said bye brendan as I was leaving. So there is my only encounter meeting my own name." (Report as inappropriate)
Comment left Jan 06, 2006: "My husband and I often went to St Brendan's Church while we were dating, and also got married there. So, it was only appropriate to name our son Brendan.
This is a great name!" (Report as inappropriate)
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