girls:
96 births since 1974
#5620 (2nd percentile)
boys:
5.7k births since 1955
#1577 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.8k births since 1955
#3580 (54th percentile)
The name Brandan is the #3,580 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,759 recorded births since 1955. This represents the 53.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,577 (65.6% percentile) for all time with 5,663 births since 1955. For girls, it ranks #5,620 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 96 births since 1974.
Brandan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1955 (1955 for boys and 1974 for girls). Birth data for Brandan is available in 67 out of the 69 years between 1955 and 2023 (67 years for boys and 13 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Brandan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brandan reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 31.4% percentile (ranked #528) with 127 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 127 births per million (ranked 31.4% percentile). Despite a low point around 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Brandan ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 3.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brandan reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #792) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brandan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brandan is pronounced as BRAN-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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