Brando — #4085 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Brando

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,085 babies named Brando between 1955 and 2024, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brando currently holds the #4085 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 104 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brando performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 794 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Brando shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 483 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Brando in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brando in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,085 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.