Brandyn — #8424 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Brandyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,751 babies named Brandyn between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brandyn currently holds the #8424 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 259 babies received it in a single year. Brandyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 442 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brandyn performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,048 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Brandyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 543 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Brandyn in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brandyn 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 4,751 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.