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Baby name
Brendan
Boy
Origin of the name
Brendan comes from the Irish Breandán, perhaps through the Latin Brendanus. Saint Brendan, an Irish monk and navigator, is the hero of a famous medieval voyage tale.
Short-lived name
91,816births since 1880
1990sgeneration
No. 96rank at its peak, in 1999
Where babies named Brendan are born
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Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Brendan is most common in Massachusetts (3.5 times), Connecticut (2.8) and New Hampshire (2.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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