Meaning not yet researched.
Branson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 165 in 2025. Its best rank was #675 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #675 in 2014; #1,222 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Branson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,222 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #675.
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Branson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 165 boys in 2025. Peak: #675 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 377 (2014).
In 2025, 165 US boys were named Branson, making it the 1,222nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 123 places from #1,099 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 196 boys named Branson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #675, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 377. For comparison, it was #694 in 2015 and #2,602 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Branson in 95 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 7 babies. In all, 8,231 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,279 babies named Branson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,565 US boys were named Branson; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 368. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,352 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Branson ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #304 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Bransen, Bransyn and Brancen 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: Bransen (892), Bransyn (366), Brancen (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 Branson 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 6 | #304 | #175 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #374 | #311 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #486 | #271 |
| Alabama | 9 | #530 | #451 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #594 | #315 |
| Indiana | 10 | #626 | #407 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #786 | #314 |
| Virginia | 6 | #985 | #449 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,005 | #710 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,016 | #620 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,029 | #514 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,102 | #600 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,370 | #724 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 165 | #1,222 |
| 2024 | — | — | 196 | #1,099 |
| 2023 | — | — | 197 | #1,089 |
| 2022 | — | — | 222 | #1,002 |
| 2021 | — | — | 244 | #927 |
| 2020 | — | — | 258 | #875 |
| 2019 | — | — | 281 | #811 |
| 2018 | — | — | 302 | #770 |
| 2017 | — | — | 332 | #723 |
| 2016 | — | — | 368 | #682 |
| 2015 | — | — | 363 | #694 |
| 2014 | — | — | 377 | #675 |
| 2013 | — | — | 355 | #679 |
| 2012 | — | — | 343 | #691 |
| 2011 | — | — | 310 | #732 |
| 2010 | — | — | 248 | #854 |
| 2009 | — | — | 273 | #812 |
| 2008 | — | — | 244 | #871 |
| 2007 | — | — | 217 | #912 |
| 2006 | — | — | 227 | #873 |
| 2005 | — | — | 180 | #967 |
| 2004 | — | — | 177 | #949 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,153 | 155 | #1,017 |
| 2002 | — | — | 151 | #1,019 |
| 2001 | — | — | 151 | #1,004 |
| 2000 | — | — | 152 | #979 |
| 1999 | — | — | 157 | #932 |
| 1998 | — | — | 151 | #933 |
| 1997 | — | — | 159 | #873 |
| 1996 | — | — | 125 | #999 |
| 1995 | — | — | 126 | #988 |
| 1994 | — | — | 99 | #1,142 |
| 1993 | — | — | 91 | #1,168 |
| 1992 | — | — | 45 | #1,821 |
| 1991 | — | — | 42 | #1,871 |
| 1990 | — | — | 36 | #2,050 |
| 1989 | — | — | 42 | #1,798 |
| 1988 | — | — | 31 | #2,040 |
| 1987 | — | — | 32 | #1,939 |
| 1986 | — | — | 27 | #2,102 |
| 1985 | — | — | 33 | #1,799 |
| 1984 | — | — | 34 | #1,697 |
| 1983 | — | — | 26 | #2,022 |
| 1982 | — | — | 29 | #1,895 |
| 1981 | — | — | 32 | #1,771 |
| 1980 | — | — | 20 | #2,457 |
| 1979 | — | — | 33 | #1,713 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,485 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,568 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,617 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,463 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #2,970 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,498 |
| 1971 | — | — | 13 | #2,692 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #3,886 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,131 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,584 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,316 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,104 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,342 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,134 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,118 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,302 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,605 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,229 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,727 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,802 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,774 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,602 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,347 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,357 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,411 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,581 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,385 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,656 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,505 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,150 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,584 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,709 |
| 1933 | — | — | 9 | #2,563 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,873 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,430 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,062 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,601 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,718 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,161 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,455 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,514 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,008 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,524 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,225 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,137 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,651 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,681 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,072 |
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).