girls:
330 births since 1970
#5386 (6th percentile)
boys:
27.4k births since 1959
#693 (85th percentile)
overall:
27.8k births since 1959
#1526 (80th percentile)
The name Branden is the #1,526 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27,777 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 80.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #693 (84.9% percentile) for all time with 27,447 births since 1959. For girls, it ranks #5,386 (5.7% percentile) for all time with 330 births since 1970.
Branden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (1959 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Branden is available in 64 out of the 65 years between 1959 and 2023 (64 years for boys and 25 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 Branden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Branden reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 68.8% percentile (ranked #241) with 548 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 548 births per million (ranked 68.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1995, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Branden ranks #862 for boys (5.4% percentile) with 29 births per million, which is 5.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Branden reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #756) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Branden".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Branden. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Branden is pronounced as BRAN-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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