Branndon
Branndon was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 261 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Branndon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Branndon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,337, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1993, the peak
Branndon peaked in 1993, when 16 boys were given it, #3,833 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #12,337 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,231 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,308 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,383 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,578 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,558 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,761 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,519 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,822 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,435 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 14 | #4,470 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,570 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,536 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,559 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,833 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,588 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,508 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,024 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,684 | 4.0 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,526 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,397 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,867 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,973 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,908 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,081 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,574 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,155 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,994 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Branndon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Branndon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Branndon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Branndon, and how old are they?
An estimated 251 Americans named Branndon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 27 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 243 people named Branndon (5 women and girls, 238 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 254 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Branndon?
Branndon is a less common spelling of Brandon: SSA has recorded 261 Branndon and 774,654 Brandon since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 816,874 babies since 1880, Branndon is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,387 babies recorded by SSA was a Branndon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Branndon
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 Branndon and names like it
- Compare Branndon and BrandonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBranndon peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Branndon since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Branndon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Branndon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.