Brannon
Brannon was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,504 among boys’ names; 4,823 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,550 Americans named Brannon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 25 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brannon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brannon?
#6,504 among boys’ names, 2025
Brannon fell from #3,302 in 2015 to #6,504 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 7.6 per million.
158 babies in 1998, the peak
Brannon peaked in 1998, when 158 boys were given it, #908 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,504 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,103 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,351 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,911 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 33 | #3,428 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,487 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,903 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,610 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,002 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 34 | #3,301 | 17.9 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,302 | 17.7 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,936 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 40 | #2,854 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,183 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,803 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,637 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,121 | 32.3 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,161 | 30.4 |
| 2007 | 95 | #1,624 | 45.8 |
| 2006 | 87 | #1,641 | 42.3 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,812 | 35.5 |
| 2004 | 68 | #1,815 | 34.3 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,436 | 46.1 |
| 2002 | 107 | #1,266 | 55.1 |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,251 | 54.6 |
| 2000 | 116 | #1,175 | 59.1 |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,116 | 61.5 |
| 1998 | 158 | #908 | 82.7 |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,114 | 59.9 |
| 1996 | 114 | #1,065 | 60.2 |
| 1995 | 135 | #953 | 70.9 |
| 1994 | 125 | #991 | 64.7 |
| 1993 | 108 | #1,068 | 55.1 |
| 1992 | 119 | #987 | 59.6 |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,178 | 43.6 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,062 | 48.2 |
| 1989 | 102 | #1,013 | 51.0 |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,106 | 42.3 |
| 1987 | 94 | #974 | 50.3 |
| 1986 | 93 | #946 | 50.5 |
| 1985 | 104 | #889 | 56.3 |
| 1984 | 91 | #922 | 50.4 |
| 1983 | 107 | #843 | 59.7 |
| 1982 | 108 | #855 | 59.5 |
| 1981 | 126 | #775 | 70.3 |
| 1980 | 147 | #722 | 82.4 |
| 1979 | 126 | #770 | 73.2 |
| 1978 | 104 | #842 | 63.3 |
| 1977 | 118 | #787 | 71.8 |
| 1976 | 106 | #810 | 67.6 |
| 1975 | 107 | #805 | 68.5 |
| 1974 | 80 | #903 | 50.9 |
| 1973 | 66 | #993 | 42.3 |
| 1972 | 73 | #943 | 45.0 |
| 1971 | 86 | #878 | 48.6 |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,181 | 26.4 |
| 1969 | 38 | #1,280 | 21.3 |
| 1968 | 34 | #1,316 | 19.6 |
| 1967 | 22 | #1,659 | 12.6 |
| 1966 | 23 | #1,614 | 12.9 |
| 1965 | 19 | #1,810 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,217 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,687 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,865 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,385 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,698 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,525 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,042 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,227 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #2,973 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,170 | 3.5 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,747 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,777 | 2.7 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,256 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,556 | 4.1 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,728 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brannon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,823 Americans recorded as Brannon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 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 Brannon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brannon, and how old are they?
4,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 4,823 Americans ever recorded as Brannon. The median Brannon alive today is 34 years old; half are between 25 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 3,858 people named Brannon (154 women and girls, 3,704 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,531 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 67 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,120 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,680 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 323 |
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 Brannon born?
The states with the most babies named Brannon are Texas, Georgia and California, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 452 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 443 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| California | 320 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 261 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Louisiana | 208 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Florida | 121 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 116 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 107 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 60 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 46 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Brannon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brannon is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1934 it was given 3.3 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 Brannon 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,110 babies since 1880, Brannon is the most given (79% of them).
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 Brannon
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 Brannon and names like it
- Compare Brannon and BrannanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBrannon peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brannon since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Brannon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brannon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.