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.
Where Brandan is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#316 · 1 in 3,936
- South Carolina#378 · 1 in 3,210
- Ohio#401 · 1 in 5,494
- Colorado#433 · 1 in 4,828
- Pennsylvania#445 · 1 in 6,593
Best ever in a state: #160 in New Hampshire, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #316 | 6 | 1 in 3,936 |
| South Carolina | #378 | 7 | 1 in 3,210 |
| Ohio | #401 | 14 | 1 in 5,494 |
| Colorado | #433 | 5 | 1 in 4,828 |
| Pennsylvania | #445 | 12 | 1 in 6,593 |
| Indiana | #466 | 6 | 1 in 6,465 |
| Michigan | #475 | 10 | 1 in 6,467 |
| Virginia | #512 | 6 | 1 in 6,688 |
| Florida | #617 | 11 | 1 in 7,679 |
| Georgia | #710 | 5 | 1 in 9,339 |
| New York | #772 | 11 | 1 in 11,790 |
| Illinois | #913 | 5 | 1 in 16,690 |
| California | #939 | 15 | 1 in 16,816 |
| Texas | #1,020 | 8 | 1 in 18,014 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 356,171 of them was named Brandan, which outranked 15.0% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 11,395 of them was named Brandan, which outranked 91.4% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).