Meaning not yet researched.
Brando: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,414 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,414 in 2005; #5,645 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brando in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,645 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #1,414.
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Brando: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,414 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 104 (2008).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Brando, making it the 5,645th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,552 places from #4,093 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 26 boys named Brando in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,414, reached in 2005. The most boys given the name in a single year was 104, in 2008. For comparison, it was #2,813 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brando in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 7 babies. In all, 2,102 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 794 babies named Brando.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 245 US boys were named Brando; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brandon (774,654 babies since 1880) and Brande (1,141 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).
No nicknames listed for Brando 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 | — | — | 16 | #5,645 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,093 |
| 2023 | — | — | 24 | #4,361 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #4,872 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,031 |
| 2020 | — | — | 27 | #3,830 |
| 2019 | — | — | 20 | #4,822 |
| 2018 | — | — | 22 | #4,495 |
| 2017 | — | — | 27 | #3,901 |
| 2016 | — | — | 37 | #3,114 |
| 2015 | — | — | 42 | #2,813 |
| 2014 | — | — | 48 | #2,546 |
| 2013 | — | — | 38 | #2,963 |
| 2012 | — | — | 59 | #2,214 |
| 2011 | — | — | 54 | #2,352 |
| 2010 | — | — | 80 | #1,817 |
| 2009 | — | — | 56 | #2,323 |
| 2008 | — | — | 104 | #1,544 |
| 2007 | — | — | 96 | #1,614 |
| 2006 | — | — | 94 | #1,563 |
| 2005 | — | — | 104 | #1,414 |
| 2004 | — | — | 78 | #1,656 |
| 2003 | — | — | 70 | #1,739 |
| 2002 | — | — | 66 | #1,745 |
| 2001 | — | — | 68 | #1,701 |
| 2000 | — | — | 58 | #1,832 |
| 1999 | — | — | 56 | #1,780 |
| 1998 | — | — | 62 | #1,668 |
| 1997 | — | — | 57 | #1,707 |
| 1996 | — | — | 50 | #1,820 |
| 1995 | — | — | 43 | #1,958 |
| 1994 | — | — | 44 | #1,896 |
| 1993 | — | — | 47 | #1,793 |
| 1992 | — | — | 37 | #2,092 |
| 1991 | — | — | 32 | #2,236 |
| 1990 | — | — | 31 | #2,263 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,796 |
| 1988 | — | — | 35 | #1,881 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,850 |
| 1986 | — | — | 21 | #2,519 |
| 1985 | — | — | 27 | #2,078 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #2,973 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #3,909 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,477 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,582 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,739 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,381 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,422 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,410 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,428 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,295 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,733 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,015 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,444 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,005 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,227 |
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).