Brannen — boys' name

What the Data Says About Brannen

The Social Security Administration has registered 376 babies named Brannen between 1970 and 2019, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brannen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 21 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brannen performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 122 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Brannen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 20 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Brannen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brannen 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 376 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.