This page shows the Brendan (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Brendan was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Brendan's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Brendan for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Brendan appears in 51 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 1,087 babies in total. Its largest single year was 2000, when the table records 44 babies given the name, at rank 110 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Brendan for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
20254647
20244619
20223703
20213720
20206476
20195516
201810344
201721229
20165532
201510337
20146490
201314280
201210337
201113288
201010344
200919222
200816246
200718215
200625179
200529163
200417195
200321179
200236125
200134127
200044110
199935129
199841120
199735135
199624158
199539119
199426145
199336126
199229138
199135121
199020148
198921135
198826125
198721131
198634111
198526119
198416144
198332107
198217131
198124113
198022118
197924122
197829109
197718136
197620124
197526115
197428111

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