Brendon
Brendon is a boy's name that peaked in 1998, when it was the 318th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,676th. About 19,000 Brendons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Brendon boys named Brendon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 20,103
- Estimated living today
- 19,000
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 318th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,676th
- First recorded
- 1927
- Girls / boys
- 22 / 20,081
How old the living Brendons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 20,103 babies given the name since 1927, about 19,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 3,300 of them are children and 70 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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.
Notable Brendons
- Brendon Urie (born 1987)American singer and musician
- Nicholas Brendon (1971–2026)American actor
- Brendon Hartley (born 1989)New Zealand racing driver
- Brendon Rodney (born 1992)Canadian athletics competitor and sprinter
- Brendon McCullum (born 1981)New Zealand cricketer
- Brendon Smith (born 2000)Australian swimmer
- Brendon Small (born 1975)American actor
People named Brendon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Brendon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Brendon is most concentrated in Utah (2.2×), Massachusetts (2.0×), New Hampshire (1.7×), Arizona (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular boys’ names the year Brendon peaked:
Brendon elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand boys | Brendon | 3,163 | 35th |
| England and Wales boys | Brendon | 897 | 359th |
| Italy boys | Brendon | 461 | — |
| France boys | Brendon | 405 | 771st |
| Scotland boys | Brendon | 41 | 288th |
| Belgium boys | Brendon | 16 | 932nd |
| Poland boys | Brendon | 5 birth registrations | 595th |
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.
Brendon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Brendon | 7 | 8 |
A count of people on a register – 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.
Related names
Brendon 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.