Brandan
Last seen for girls in 1989 at #12,362 · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to boys 98.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 263 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,680since 1955
Brandan over time
Rank among boys' names. Brandan has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #7,679 | 10 | |
| 2024 | — | #12,349 | 5 | |
| 2023 | — | #8,921 | 8 | |
| 2022 | — | #12,330 | 5 | |
| 2021 | — | #8,825 | 8 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,041 | 18 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,003 | 26 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,094 | 25 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,935 | 19 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,943 | 19 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,545 | 21 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,532 | 30 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,180 | 23 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,716 | 44 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,663 | 45 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,118 | 63 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,348 | 55 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,825 | 80 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,562 | 100 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,638 | 87 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,460 | 100 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,309 | 113 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,253 | 115 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,168 | 121 | |
| 2001 | — | #987 | 155 | |
| 2000 | — | #859 | 185 | |
| 1999 | — | #754 | 212 | |
| 1998 | — | #759 | 210 | |
| 1997 | — | #782 | 189 | |
| 1996 | — | #700 | 227 | |
| 1995 | — | #700 | 228 | |
| 1994 | — | #718 | 213 | |
| 1993 | — | #637 | 263 | |
| 1992 | — | #662 | 248 | |
| 1991 | — | #644 | 251 | |
| 1990 | — | #745 | 186 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #692 | 205 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #727 | 168 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #661 | 190 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | #648 | 189 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 | #665 | 176 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #742 | 137 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #867 | 102 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #920 | 94 |
| 1981 | — | #841 | 109 | |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #957 | 88 |
| 1979 | — | #1,137 | 62 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #1,240 | 52 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | #1,268 | 49 |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 | #1,163 | 54 |
| 1975 | — | #1,208 | 49 | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #1,618 | 30 |
| 1973 | — | #1,268 | 42 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,418 | 36 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,366 | 16 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,509 | 14 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,311 | 13 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,986 | 8 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,780 | 9 | |
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| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,423 | 12 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
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| 1956 | — | #2,628 | 10 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brandan! It came in at #3,886, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brandan
- 4,670 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #7,679)
- 2,638 spots since 2020 (#5,041 → #7,679)
- 3,134 spots since 2015 (#4,545 → #7,679)
- Biggest jump: 180 spots in 1980 (#1,137 → #957)
- Biggest drop: 181 spots in 2002 (#987 → #1,168)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 1993 at #637 (263 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1980–2001
- Highest: 1 in 7,458 boys born in 1993 were named Brandan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.2% of all boys named Brandan (2,227) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 27 | #2,628 (1956) | #3,444 |
| 1960s | 84 | #2,311 (1968) | #2,857 |
| 1970s | 404 | #1,137 (1979) | #1,520 |
| 1980s | 1,458 | #648 (1986) | #772 |
| 1990s | 2,227 | #637 (1993) | #710 |
| 2000s | 1,111 | #859 (2000) | #1,441 |
| 2010s | 315 | #2,118 (2010) | #3,773 |
| 2020s | 54 | #5,041 (2020) | #9,191 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brandan in 1980
Top girls' names in 1980
Top boys' names in 1980
More about 1980
girls
1,660,307 girls got a published name in 1980; 1 in 207,538 of them was named Brandan, which outranked 39.0% of the 12,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,789Zandria9
- #6,789Zoraya9
- #6,789Zulekha9
- #7,418Brandan8
- #7,418Adah8
- #7,418Adana8
- #7,418Adenike8
- #8,178Abha7
- #8,178Adonna7
- #8,178Adreana7
Tied with 759 names at #7,418; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,783,951 boys got a published name in 1980; 1 in 20,272 of them was named Brandan, which outranked 86.9% of the 7,293 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).