Brendon
Brendon was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,683 among boys’ names; 20,103 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,300 Americans named Brendon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brendon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brendon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brendon is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brendon?
#2,683 among boys’ names, 2025
Brendon fell from #1,116 in 2015 to #2,683 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 89.7 to 28.1 per million.
868 babies in 1998, the peak
Brendon peaked in 1998, when 868 boys were given it, #318 among boys’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,683 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,567 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,175 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 52 | #2,590 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 83 | #1,854 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,072 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,509 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 138 | #1,320 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 114 | #1,478 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 124 | #1,414 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 172 | #1,116 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 181 | #1,071 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 202 | #986 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 281 | #801 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 307 | #737 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 384 | #634 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 464 | #572 | 0.23 |
| 2008 | 442 | #581 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 484 | #530 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 513 | #506 | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 531 | #470 | 0.27 |
| 2004 | 563 | #459 | 0.28 |
| 2003 | 592 | #430 | 0.30 |
| 2002 | 643 | #400 | 0.33 |
| 2001 | 641 | #394 | 0.33 |
| 2000 | 787 | #348 | 0.40 |
| 1999 | 823 | #330 | 0.43 |
| 1998 | 868 | #318 | 0.45 |
| 1997 | 788 | #332 | 0.42 |
| 1996 | 703 | #349 | 0.37 |
| 1995 | 624 | #379 | 0.33 |
| 1994 | 719 | #343 | 0.37 |
| 1993 | 579 | #400 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 649 | #364 | 0.32 |
| 1991 | 595 | #380 | 0.29 |
| 1990 | 485 | #450 | 0.24 |
| 1989 | 489 | #422 | 0.24 |
| 1988 | 378 | #471 | 0.20 |
| 1987 | 410 | #435 | 0.22 |
| 1986 | 360 | #461 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 319 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1984 | 300 | #481 | 0.17 |
| 1983 | 240 | #542 | 0.13 |
| 1982 | 251 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 218 | #579 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 208 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 203 | #601 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 149 | #686 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 189 | #609 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 173 | #625 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 184 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 123 | #732 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 111 | #760 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 105 | #778 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 104 | #789 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 124 | #738 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 112 | #741 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 118 | #697 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 62 | #917 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 32 | #1,347 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 25 | #1,563 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 25 | #1,584 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #1,907 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,713 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 21 | #1,782 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,118 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,548 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,659 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,512 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,764 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,391 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,774 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,469 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,733 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,143 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,557 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,150 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,874 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,187 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brendon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brendon has been given almost only to boys: 22 girls in 82 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brendon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brendon, and how old are they?
19,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 20,103 Americans ever recorded as Brendon. The median Brendon alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 17,654 people named Brendon (79 women and girls, 17,575 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,178 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 128 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,810 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,940 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,400 |
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 Brendon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,264 | 1.1× |
Where Brendon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brendon is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1927 it was given 1.9 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 Brendon 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 140,412 babies since 1880, Brendon is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 293 babies (16%), the second 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 Brendon
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 Brendon and names like it
- Compare Brendon and BrendanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBrendon peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brendon since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Brendon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brendon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.