Brannon
Brannon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 723rd, in 1980.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1998158 births
- Best rank
- #723in 1980
- Since 1934
- 4,810people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,694 boys have been named Brannon in the United States since 1934, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 158 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 1991, and the 1990s alone account for 25%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 116 girls have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Brannon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 16 | |
| 1950s | 43 | |
| 1960s | 182 | |
| 1970s | 915 | |
| 1980s | 1,053 | |
| 1990s | 1,177 | |
| 2000s | 867 | |
| 2010s | 353 | |
| 2020s | 83 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Brannon was the 909th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Brannon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kedrickpeak 1978
- Tavispeak 1999
- Jerardopeak 2000
- Sharifpeak 1980
- Jahmalpeak 1993
- Dejuanpeak 1990
- Decarlospeak 1975
- Djuanpeak 1990
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.