Brando
Brando was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,643 among boys’ names; 2,102 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,050 Americans named Brando and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brando by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brando mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Brando is “a male given name”
Shortened form of personal names, such as Ildebrando, Aldobrando or Aliprando.
/ˈbran.do/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brando?
#5,643 among boys’ names, 2025
Brando fell from #2,812 in 2015 to #5,643 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.9 to 9.4 per million.
104 babies in 2005, the peak
Brando peaked in 2005, when 104 boys were given it, #1,413 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,643 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,090 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,357 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,868 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,027 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,827 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,818 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,491 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,897 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,113 | 19.5 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,812 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 48 | #2,544 | 25.0 |
| 2013 | 38 | #2,961 | 20.1 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,213 | 31.1 |
| 2011 | 54 | #2,351 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 80 | #1,816 | 41.7 |
| 2009 | 56 | #2,322 | 28.2 |
| 2008 | 104 | #1,544 | 51.0 |
| 2007 | 96 | #1,614 | 46.3 |
| 2006 | 94 | #1,563 | 45.7 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,413 | 52.1 |
| 2004 | 78 | #1,653 | 39.3 |
| 2003 | 70 | #1,736 | 35.4 |
| 2002 | 66 | #1,742 | 34.0 |
| 2001 | 68 | #1,697 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 58 | #1,828 | 29.5 |
| 1999 | 56 | #1,777 | 29.2 |
| 1998 | 62 | #1,665 | 32.4 |
| 1997 | 57 | #1,704 | 30.2 |
| 1996 | 50 | #1,816 | 26.4 |
| 1995 | 43 | #1,953 | 22.6 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,891 | 22.8 |
| 1993 | 47 | #1,788 | 24.0 |
| 1992 | 37 | #2,087 | 18.5 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,230 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,258 | 15.1 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,790 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 35 | #1,876 | 18.3 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,846 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,517 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,077 | 14.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,972 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,907 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,475 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,581 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,738 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,380 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,421 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,408 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,427 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,293 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,731 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,013 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,442 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,003 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,226 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brando a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brando has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brando: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brando, and how old are they?
2,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,102 Americans ever recorded as Brando. The median Brando alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,451 people named Brando (26 women and girls, 2,425 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,931 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Brando rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 91 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 435 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 370 |
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 Brando born?
The states with the most babies named Brando are California, Texas and New York, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 483 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 233 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 176 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oregon | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Brando is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brando is most over-represented in California: since 1955 it was given 1.7 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 Brando with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brando
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 Brando and names like it
- Compare Brando and JevinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrando peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brando since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Brando: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Brando.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brando alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.