Brandyn
Brandyn was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,260 among boys’ names; 5,206 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,030 Americans named Brandyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 23 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brandyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brandyn?
#7,260 among boys’ names, 2025
Brandyn fell from #2,724 in 2015 to #7,260 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.0 to 6.4 per million.
269 babies in 1992, the peak
Brandyn peaked in 1992, when 269 babies were given it (259 boys, #638 among boys’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,260 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,401 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,267 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,239 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,507 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,486 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,012 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,800 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,844 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,693 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #2,724 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 56 | #2,317 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 48 | #2,535 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,454 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,148 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 83 | #1,780 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 90 | #1,719 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 94 | #1,640 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 98 | #1,593 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,428 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,486 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,424 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 127 | #1,174 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,221 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 143 | #1,028 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 154 | #972 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 182 | #829 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 193 | #791 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 175 | #826 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 195 | #755 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 216 | #725 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 232 | #680 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 231 | #674 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 259 | #638 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 207 | #699 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 158 | #806 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 165 | #769 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 151 | #766 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 124 | #837 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 136 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 106 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 44 | #1,445 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 45 | #1,399 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 48 | #1,363 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 39 | #1,548 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 28 | #1,970 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,318 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,483 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 29 | #1,785 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,428 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,269 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,036 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,697 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,401 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brandyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,206 Americans recorded as Brandyn, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 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 Brandyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brandyn, and how old are they?
5,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 5,206 Americans ever recorded as Brandyn. The median Brandyn alive today is 31 years old; half are between 23 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 4,031 people named Brandyn (376 women and girls, 3,655 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,985 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 343 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 388 |
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 Brandyn born?
The states with the most babies named Brandyn are California, New York and Texas, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 548 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 271 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 266 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 261 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 211 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 165 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 158 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 151 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 76 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 60 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Brandyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brandyn is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1968 it was given 1.2 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 Brandyn 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, Brandyn is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,387 babies (<1%), the third 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 Brandyn
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 Brandyn and names like it
- Compare Brandyn and BrandonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBrandyn peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brandyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Brandyn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brandyn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.