Entry № 1626 · Irish origin

Brennan Brennan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BREN-uhn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Sorrow / drop (Walter Brennan; modern unisex)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "sorrow / drop (walter brennan; modern unisex)".

Brennan is from the Irish Ó Braonáin — braon (drop, sorrow) + án (diminutive). Eliot and Ezra Pound. William J. Brennan Jr.

Sorrow / drop.

The name in its native script.

Brennan
Transliteration
Brennan
Pronunciation
/ ˈbrɛn.ən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Brennan stands.

Brennan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Brennans before her.

Real people
Walter Brennan
American 3x Oscar actor.
1894 – 1974
Brennan Manning
American Christian author.
1934 – 2013
In fiction
Temperance Brennan
FOX's Bones.
2005

Names connected to Brennan.

The number behind Brennan.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Brennan reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.