Branch
Branch was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,454 among boys’ names; 1,063 Americans have been recorded with it since 1889 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Branch by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Branch?
#3,454 among boys’ names, 2025
Branch fell from #3,028 in 2015 to #3,454 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.8 to 19.3 per million.
92 babies in 2018, the peak
Branch peaked in 2018, when 92 boys were given it, #1,707 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,454 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,222 | 21.5 |
| 2023 | 46 | #2,770 | 26.9 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,412 | 33.2 |
| 2021 | 79 | #1,917 | 45.2 |
| 2020 | 77 | #1,914 | 44.6 |
| 2019 | 80 | #1,870 | 44.6 |
| 2018 | 92 | #1,707 | 50.7 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,019 | 37.8 |
| 2016 | 74 | #1,961 | 39.0 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,028 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,027 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,693 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,351 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,854 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,478 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,002 | 3.5 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,267 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,381 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,571 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,083 | 2.5 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,518 | 4.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,790 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,425 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,216 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,065 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,246 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,029 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,069 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,630 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,080 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,009 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,593 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,024 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,012 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,879 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,339 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,697 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,939 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,931 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,898 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,627 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,899 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,554 | 5.5 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,148 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,217 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,659 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,706 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,706 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,409 | 5.7 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,611 | 9.9 |
| 1923 | 17 | #1,950 | 15.5 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,045 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,240 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,474 | 11.3 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,404 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,602 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,472 | 11.8 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,963 | 9.2 |
| 1889 | 7 | #806 | 63.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Branch a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Branch has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Branch: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Branch, and how old are they?
An estimated 903 Americans named Branch and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 713 people named Branch (32 women and girls, 681 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 610 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Branch
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
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