Meaning not yet researched.
Branden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #251 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #251 in 1987; #3,320 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Branden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,320 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #251.
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Branden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #251 in 1987 · most boys in one year: 1,150 (1992).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Branden, making it the 3,320th most common boys’ name of the year, down 716 places from #2,604 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 51 boys named Branden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #251, reached in 1987. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,150, in 1992. For comparison, it was #1,057 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Branden in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 5 babies. In all, 27,867 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 9,729 babies named Branden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 779 US boys were named Branden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 151. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brandon (774,654 babies since 1880), Brendan (92,141 babies since 1880), Brenden (25,757 babies since 1880) and Brendon (20,103 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Branden in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 35 | #3,320 |
| 2024 | — | — | 51 | #2,604 |
| 2023 | — | — | 54 | #2,483 |
| 2022 | — | — | 46 | #2,797 |
| 2021 | — | — | 58 | #2,350 |
| 2020 | — | — | 79 | #1,876 |
| 2019 | — | — | 75 | #1,958 |
| 2018 | — | — | 114 | #1,507 |
| 2017 | — | — | 116 | #1,460 |
| 2016 | — | — | 151 | #1,235 |
| 2015 | — | — | 188 | #1,057 |
| 2014 | — | — | 205 | #1,004 |
| 2013 | — | — | 201 | #988 |
| 2012 | — | — | 250 | #850 |
| 2011 | — | — | 336 | #691 |
| 2010 | — | — | 385 | #630 |
| 2009 | — | — | 444 | #588 |
| 2008 | — | — | 431 | #587 |
| 2007 | — | — | 556 | #481 |
| 2006 | — | — | 566 | #472 |
| 2005 | — | — | 588 | #444 |
| 2004 | — | — | 618 | #421 |
| 2003 | — | — | 662 | #395 |
| 2002 | — | — | 714 | #369 |
| 2001 | — | — | 811 | #339 |
| 2000 | — | — | 810 | #338 |
| 1999 | — | — | 918 | #310 |
| 1998 | — | — | 909 | #309 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,287 | 889 | #305 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,033 | 939 | #288 |
| 1995 | — | — | 910 | #291 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,687 | 1,038 | #270 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,746 | 1,071 | #270 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,142 | 1,150 | #252 |
| 1991 | — | — | 1,011 | #267 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,351 | 849 | #299 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,505 | 970 | #262 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,595 | 894 | #262 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,635 | 913 | #251 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,768 | 858 | #259 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,865 | 810 | #265 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,014 | 735 | #283 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,304 | 640 | #309 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,537 | 597 | #320 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,259 | 600 | #317 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,330 | 398 | #407 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,869 | 293 | #483 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,602 | 246 | #524 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,452 | 252 | #527 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,094 | 177 | #615 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,018 | 205 | #564 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,978 | 165 | #625 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,743 | 141 | #673 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,360 | 107 | #771 |
| 1971 | — | — | 78 | #920 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,105 | 73 | #931 |
| 1969 | — | — | 27 | #1,572 |
| 1968 | — | — | 35 | #1,287 |
| 1967 | — | — | 23 | #1,611 |
| 1966 | — | — | 16 | #1,974 |
| 1965 | — | — | 21 | #1,723 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,110 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,687 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,341 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,116 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,052 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).