Meaning not yet researched.
Brandon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,326 in 2025. Its best rank was #6 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #6 in 1994; #261 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brandon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#261 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #6.
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Brandon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,326 boys in 2025. Peak: #6 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 29,628 (1992).
In 2025, 1,326 US boys were named Brandon, making it the 261st most common boys’ name of the year, down 31 places from #230 in 2024. That is 236 fewer than the 1,562 boys named Brandon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #6, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 29,628, in 1992. For comparison, it was #83 in 2015 and #936 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brandon in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 11 babies. In all, 774,654 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 260,180 babies named Brandon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 24,275 US boys were named Brandon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,101. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,288 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brandon ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #164 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Branden (27,867 babies since 1880), Brenden (25,757 babies since 1880), Brendon (20,103 babies since 1880) and Brandan (5,776 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brand, Branndon and Brandonn are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brand (307), Branndon (261), Brandonn (122), Brandun (99), Branko (85), Branddon (21), Brandenn (5).
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 Brandon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 35 | #164 | #79 |
| Louisiana | 29 | #176 | #69 |
| South Carolina | 31 | #178 | #86 |
| Georgia | 61 | #200 | #72 |
| Delaware | 5 | #208 | #50 |
| Maryland | 26 | #222 | #65 |
| Michigan | 44 | #226 | #114 |
| California | 165 | #226 | #47 |
| Florida | 93 | #228 | #61 |
| Nevada | 13 | #230 | #68 |
| Texas | 172 | #230 | #64 |
| Arkansas | 15 | #233 | #97 |
| New York | 84 | #234 | #68 |
| Ohio | 54 | #234 | #100 |
| Virginia | 35 | #246 | #86 |
| Kentucky | 20 | #269 | #118 |
| Illinois | 41 | #270 | #71 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #274 | #87 |
| North Carolina | 44 | #276 | #86 |
| New Jersey | 32 | #282 | #51 |
| Missouri | 24 | #282 | #127 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #283 | #92 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #284 | #77 |
| Colorado | 21 | #309 | #118 |
| Massachusetts | 18 | #309 | #135 |
| Arizona | 25 | #311 | #98 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #322 | #135 |
| Washington | 23 | #325 | #126 |
| Kansas | 11 | #328 | #160 |
| Idaho | 7 | #335 | #125 |
| Tennessee | 26 | #336 | #99 |
| Indiana | 22 | #340 | #125 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #354 | #110 |
| Oregon | 11 | #355 | #135 |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #429 | #95 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #443 | #154 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #450 | #149 |
| Iowa | 6 | #504 | #200 |
| Utah | 8 | #518 | #168 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,326 | #261 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,562 | #230 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,665 | #219 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,777 | #210 |
| 2021 | — | — | 2,135 | #181 |
| 2020 | — | — | 2,312 | #165 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,117 | 2,686 | #141 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,083 | 3,214 | #124 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,833 | 3,497 | #114 |
| 2016 | — | — | 4,101 | #99 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,022 | 5,128 | #83 |
| 2014 | — | — | 5,856 | #71 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,180 | 6,235 | #70 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,880 | 7,041 | #56 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,494 | 7,821 | #47 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,338 | 8,549 | #44 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,089 | 9,848 | #38 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,599 | 11,482 | #33 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,101 | 12,148 | #31 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,742 | 12,686 | #27 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,501 | 12,947 | #27 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,750 | 14,135 | #22 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,964 | 15,245 | #21 |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,989 | 16,282 | #20 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,377 | 17,893 | #18 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,221 | 20,337 | #12 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,054 | 21,601 | #11 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,572 | 23,832 | #7 |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,312 | 25,197 | #8 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,809 | 25,847 | #8 |
| 1995 | 86 | #1,705 | 26,904 | #8 |
| 1994 | 94 | #1,610 | 29,492 | #6 |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,540 | 28,735 | #6 |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,602 | 29,628 | #6 |
| 1991 | 63 | #2,112 | 26,021 | #15 |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,717 | 22,163 | #19 |
| 1989 | 135 | #1,199 | 23,310 | #18 |
| 1988 | 166 | #990 | 23,744 | #17 |
| 1987 | 217 | #806 | 24,823 | #14 |
| 1986 | 269 | #683 | 27,254 | #13 |
| 1985 | 273 | #662 | 29,304 | #13 |
| 1984 | 235 | #706 | 25,673 | #15 |
| 1983 | 247 | #686 | 23,519 | #17 |
| 1982 | 201 | #801 | 20,212 | #18 |
| 1981 | 220 | #752 | 20,206 | #19 |
| 1980 | 136 | #1,050 | 14,161 | #31 |
| 1979 | 127 | #1,081 | 11,302 | #35 |
| 1978 | 100 | #1,241 | 9,241 | #40 |
| 1977 | 96 | #1,248 | 8,272 | #41 |
| 1976 | 98 | #1,167 | 7,786 | #40 |
| 1975 | 97 | #1,192 | 7,090 | #44 |
| 1974 | 81 | #1,316 | 5,859 | #51 |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,458 | 5,065 | #58 |
| 1972 | 50 | #1,749 | 4,625 | #63 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,069 | 3,263 | #95 |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,168 | 2,544 | #131 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,710 | 1,107 | #216 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,069 | 759 | #263 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,678 | 483 | #342 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,661 | 397 | #379 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,337 | 395 | #394 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,528 | 303 | #455 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,345 | 259 | #499 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,921 | 194 | #566 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,908 | 194 | #563 |
| 1960 | — | — | 185 | #575 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,621 | 186 | #572 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,469 | 132 | #665 |
| 1957 | — | — | 130 | #665 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,036 | 168 | #587 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,403 | 104 | #716 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,706 | 162 | #580 |
| 1953 | — | — | 113 | #671 |
| 1952 | — | — | 76 | #805 |
| 1951 | — | — | 50 | #993 |
| 1950 | — | — | 54 | #936 |
| 1949 | — | — | 42 | #1,086 |
| 1948 | — | — | 35 | #1,218 |
| 1947 | — | — | 31 | #1,321 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,556 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,264 |
| 1944 | — | — | 18 | #1,636 |
| 1943 | — | — | 17 | #1,773 |
| 1942 | — | — | 10 | #2,398 |
| 1941 | — | — | 10 | #2,350 |
| 1940 | — | — | 10 | #2,341 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #2,895 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #2,941 |
| 1936 | — | — | 12 | #2,073 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,548 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,326 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,112 |
| 1932 | — | — | 9 | #2,663 |
| 1931 | — | — | 12 | #2,221 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,315 |
| 1929 | — | — | 13 | #2,219 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,869 |
| 1927 | — | — | 17 | #1,966 |
| 1926 | — | — | 17 | #1,920 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #2,956 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,490 |
| 1923 | — | — | 16 | #2,031 |
| 1922 | — | — | 14 | #2,255 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,007 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #2,987 |
| 1919 | — | — | 11 | #2,525 |
| 1918 | — | — | 15 | #2,083 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,757 |
| 1916 | — | — | 16 | #1,861 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,200 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #1,987 |
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).