Brandon — #230 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Brandon

The Social Security Administration has registered 769,149 babies named Brandon between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brandon currently holds the #230 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 29,627 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brandon performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 259,415 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Brandon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 90,851 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Brandon in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brandon 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 769,149 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.