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Branden

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Branden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 51 births. Its best rank was 251st, in 1987.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
510.00% of boys
Peak year
19921,150 births
Best rank
#251in 1987
Since 1959
27,501people given the name
Babies named Branden, by year of birthboys
05001k1.5k2k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

27,501 boys have been named Branden in the United States since 1959, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 1,150 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 1990s alone account for 35%. It has spent 44 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Branden
1950s5
1960s152
1970s1,737
1980s7,414
1990s9,684
2000s6,200
2010s2,021
2020s288

In 1992, its biggest year

Branden was the 252nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1992 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1992.

Names that rose and fell with Branden

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.