Meaning not yet researched.
Brannon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #722 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #722 in 1980; #6,508 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brannon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,508 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #722.
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Brannon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #722 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 158 (1998).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Brannon, making it the 6,508th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,600 places from #9,108 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 8 boys named Brannon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #722, reached in 1980. The most boys given the name in a single year was 158, in 1998. For comparison, it was #3,303 in 2015 and #3,749 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brannon in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1934 with 5 babies. In all, 4,823 US babies have been given the name, 2.4% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,204 babies named Brannon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 213 US boys were named Brannon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Brannan, Brannen and Branon 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brannan (392), Brannen (376), Branon (240), Branoon (11), Branen (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 Brannon 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 | — | — | 13 | #6,508 |
| 2024 | — | — | 8 | #9,108 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,356 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #5,915 |
| 2021 | — | — | 33 | #3,431 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,491 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,906 |
| 2018 | — | — | 30 | #3,614 |
| 2017 | — | — | 26 | #4,006 |
| 2016 | — | — | 34 | #3,302 |
| 2015 | — | — | 34 | #3,303 |
| 2014 | — | — | 39 | #2,938 |
| 2013 | — | — | 40 | #2,856 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,186 |
| 2011 | — | — | 42 | #2,804 |
| 2010 | — | — | 46 | #2,638 |
| 2009 | — | — | 64 | #2,122 |
| 2008 | — | — | 62 | #2,162 |
| 2007 | — | — | 95 | #1,624 |
| 2006 | — | — | 87 | #1,641 |
| 2005 | — | — | 71 | #1,816 |
| 2004 | — | — | 68 | #1,818 |
| 2003 | — | — | 91 | #1,438 |
| 2002 | — | — | 107 | #1,269 |
| 2001 | — | — | 106 | #1,255 |
| 2000 | — | — | 116 | #1,177 |
| 1999 | — | — | 118 | #1,118 |
| 1998 | — | — | 158 | #909 |
| 1997 | — | — | 113 | #1,117 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,035 | 114 | #1,067 |
| 1995 | — | — | 135 | #956 |
| 1994 | — | — | 125 | #995 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,748 | 108 | #1,072 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,591 | 119 | #990 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,680 | 88 | #1,184 |
| 1990 | — | — | 99 | #1,066 |
| 1989 | — | — | 102 | #1,016 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,524 | 81 | #1,108 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,880 | 94 | #975 |
| 1986 | — | — | 93 | #947 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,848 | 104 | #889 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,265 | 91 | #922 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,269 | 107 | #843 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,558 | 108 | #855 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,591 | 126 | #775 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,492 | 147 | #722 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,389 | 126 | #770 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,017 | 104 | #842 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,632 | 118 | #787 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,445 | 106 | #810 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,088 | 107 | #805 |
| 1974 | — | — | 80 | #903 |
| 1973 | — | — | 66 | #993 |
| 1972 | — | — | 73 | #943 |
| 1971 | — | — | 86 | #878 |
| 1970 | — | — | 49 | #1,181 |
| 1969 | — | — | 38 | #1,280 |
| 1968 | — | — | 34 | #1,316 |
| 1967 | — | — | 22 | #1,660 |
| 1966 | — | — | 23 | #1,615 |
| 1965 | — | — | 19 | #1,811 |
| 1964 | — | — | 14 | #2,218 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,688 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,866 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,386 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,699 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,526 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,043 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,228 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #2,974 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,171 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,749 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,779 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,257 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,557 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,730 |
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).