Brandon
Brandon reached its high-water mark in 1992 at number 6, and has been recorded 774,654 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 261st. About 742,000 Brandons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Brandon boys named Brandon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 774,654
- Estimated living today
- 742,000
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1992
- Best rank
- 6th
- Rank in 2025
- 261st
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 4,145 / 770,509
How old the living Brandons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 774,654 babies given the name since 1914, about 742,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 86,000 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From Middle English Brandon, Brampdon, Bramdun, Bremedon, Bromdun, from Old English brōmdūn, from brōm + dūn.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Brandons
- Brandon Lee (1965–1993)American actor
- Brandon Sanderson (born 1975)American fantasy writer
- Brandon Routh (born 1979)American actor
- Brandon Hardesty (born 1987)American actor
- Brandon Flowers (born 1981)American indie rock singer
- Brandon Flynn (born 1993)American actor
- Brandon Roy (born 1984)American basketball player and coach
- Brandon Mechele (born 1993)Belgian footballer
People named Brandon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Brandon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Brandon is most concentrated in Nevada (2.0×), Alaska (1.7×), Hawaii (1.5×), Arizona (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1992
The most popular boys’ names the year Brandon peaked:
Brandon elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Brandon | 26,444 | 34th |
| France boys | Brandon | 11,160 | 63rd |
| Scotland boys | Brandon | 2,272 | 46th |
| Ireland boys | Brandon | 1,566 | 70th |
| Belgium boys | Brandon | 1,423 | 93rd |
| New Zealand boys | Brandon | 1,000 | 34th |
| Italy boys | Brandon | 736 | — |
| Northern Ireland boys | Brandon | 615 | 57th |
| Switzerland boys | Brandon | 211 | 431st |
| Poland boys | Brandon | 195 birth registrations | 206th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Brandon: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Brandon | 121 | 0.010% | 413th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Brandon | 71 | 0.016% | 293rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Brandon | 19 | 0.029% | 117th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Brandon is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 26 of them.
Brandon: rank by region
In 2018, Brandon was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Brandon | 499 | 5 |
In 2024, Brandon was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Śląskie | Brandon | 250 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Brandon among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Brandon | 2,040 | 2,615 |
| Finland boys | Brandon | 77 | 107 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Brandon lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 934 men called Brandon were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Brandon | 63 | 0.108 | 856 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Brandon | 45 | 0.084 | 1,031 |
| Balears, Illes | Brandon | 46 | 0.074 | 899 |
| Ourense | Brandon | 10 | 0.068 | 752 |
| Toledo | Brandon | 23 | 0.061 | 881 |
| Guadalajara | Brandon | 8 | 0.055 | 959 |
Listed in 37 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 15 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Brandon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.