Brandan
Brandan was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,749 among boys’ names; 5,776 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,520 Americans named Brandan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brandan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brandan?
#7,749 among boys’ names, 2025
Brandan fell from #4,565 in 2015 to #7,749 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 5.9 per million.
263 babies in 1993, the peak
Brandan peaked in 1993, when 263 boys were given it, #637 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,749 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,601 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,029 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,617 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,941 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,060 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,011 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,101 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 19 | #4,960 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 19 | #4,970 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,565 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,543 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,195 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,719 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,666 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,120 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,350 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 80 | #1,827 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 100 | #1,565 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 87 | #1,640 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 100 | #1,460 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 113 | #1,309 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 115 | #1,253 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 121 | #1,166 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 155 | #986 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 185 | #857 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 212 | #752 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 210 | #758 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 189 | #781 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 227 | #699 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 228 | #697 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 213 | #717 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 263 | #637 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 248 | #660 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 251 | #643 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 186 | #741 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 205 | #689 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 168 | #726 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 190 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 189 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 176 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 137 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 102 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 94 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 109 | #842 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 88 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,241 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,270 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,164 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,208 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 30 | #1,622 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,272 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 36 | #1,418 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,374 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,519 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,886 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,327 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,624 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,013 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,803 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,074 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,686 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,434 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,050 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,643 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,941 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brandan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,776 Americans recorded as Brandan, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brandan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brandan, and how old are they?
5,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 5,776 Americans ever recorded as Brandan. The median Brandan alive today is 33 years old; half are between 26 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 4,761 people named Brandan (100 women and girls, 4,661 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,548 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 528 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,840 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 215 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Brandan born?
The states with the most babies named Brandan are California, New York and Ohio, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 510 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 359 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 267 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 266 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 230 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 218 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 191 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 143 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 111 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 96 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Brandan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brandan is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1955 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brandan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 816,874 babies since 1880, Brandan is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 1,387 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brandan
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.
More about Brandan and names like it
- Compare Brandan and BrandonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBrandan peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brandan since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Brandan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brandan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.