girls:
4.1k births since 1954
#2676 (53rd percentile)
boys:
767.6k births since 1914
#44 (99th percentile)
overall:
771.7k births since 1914
#71 (99th percentile)
The name Brandon is the #71 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 771,703 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 99.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #44 (99.1% percentile) for all time with 767,558 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #2,676 (53.2% percentile) for all time with 4,145 births since 1954.
Brandon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1954 for girls). Birth data for Brandon is available in 109 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (109 years for boys and 62 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 Brandon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brandon reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 99.4% percentile (ranked #6) with 14,467 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 15,229 births per million (ranked 98.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brandon ranks #216 for boys (76.4% percentile) with 903 births per million, which is 5.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brandon reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 32.4% percentile (ranked #541) with 148 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 148 births per million (ranked 32.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brandon".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Brandon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.0% confident that Brandon is pronounced as BRAN-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BRAN-dihn, at 13.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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