Brandon
Brandon is ranked 230th among boys in 2024 (1,553 births). Its best rank was 6th, in 1992–1994.
- Rank in 2024
- #230down 11 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,5530.09% of boys
- Peak year
- 199229,627 births
- Best rank
- #6first in 1992
- Since 1914
- 773,294people given the name
The story in the numbers
769,149 boys have been named Brandon in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 29,627 births — 1.5% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 71 → 230).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 34%. It has spent 75 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 46 of them in the top 100 and 7 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,145 girls have also been given it, 0.54% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Brandon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 74 | |
| 1920s | 125 | |
| 1930s | 86 | |
| 1940s | 192 | |
| 1950s | 1,176 | |
| 1960s | 4,277 | |
| 1970s | 65,050 | |
| 1980s | 232,206 | |
| 1990s | 259,415 | |
| 2000s | 142,995 | |
| 2010s | 54,116 | |
| 2020s | 9,437 |
In 1992, its biggest year
Brandon was the 6th 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 Brandon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Justenpeak 1990
- Brandenpeak 1992
- Brandinpeak 1988
- Nickolauspeak 1990
- Johnathonpeak 1990
- Terellpeak 1994
- Jonathonpeak 1990
- Jaredpeak 1998
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.