Branden
Last seen for girls in 1997 at #12,070 · #3,314 for boys in 2025, 35 births
Given to boys 98.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1987 · 913 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 27,537since 1959
Branden over time
Rank among boys' names. Branden has never cracked the top 200 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 | — | #3,314 | 35 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,595 | 51 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,480 | 54 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,793 | 46 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,349 | 58 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,872 | 79 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,954 | 75 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,506 | 114 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,460 | 116 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,234 | 151 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,057 | 188 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,004 | 205 | |
| 2013 | — | #988 | 201 | |
| 2012 | — | #850 | 250 | |
| 2011 | — | #691 | 336 | |
| 2010 | — | #630 | 385 | |
| 2009 | — | #588 | 444 | |
| 2008 | — | #586 | 431 | |
| 2007 | — | #481 | 556 | |
| 2006 | — | #471 | 566 | |
| 2005 | — | #444 | 588 | |
| 2004 | — | #421 | 618 | |
| 2003 | — | #395 | 662 | |
| 2002 | — | #369 | 714 | |
| 2001 | — | #339 | 811 | |
| 2000 | — | #338 | 810 | |
| 1999 | — | #310 | 918 | |
| 1998 | — | #309 | 909 | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #305 | 889 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #288 | 939 |
| 1995 | — | #291 | 910 | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #270 | 1,038 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #270 | 1,071 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #252 | 1,150 |
| 1991 | — | #267 | 1,011 | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #299 | 849 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | #262 | 970 |
| 1988 | #3,585 | 26 | #262 | 894 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 | #251 | 913 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 | #259 | 858 |
| 1985 | #3,852 | 21 | #265 | 810 |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 | #283 | 735 |
| 1983 | #4,286 | 17 | #308 | 640 |
| 1982 | #3,530 | 23 | #320 | 597 |
| 1981 | #3,253 | 26 | #317 | 600 |
| 1980 | #3,318 | 25 | #407 | 398 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 | #483 | 293 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | #523 | 246 |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 | #526 | 252 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #614 | 177 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | #564 | 205 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #625 | 165 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #673 | 141 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | #770 | 107 |
| 1971 | — | #920 | 78 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #931 | 73 |
| 1969 | — | #1,570 | 27 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,282 | 35 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,609 | 23 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,963 | 16 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,720 | 21 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
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| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Branden! It came in at #3,988, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Branden is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Delaware#115 · 1 in 670
- Ohio#133 · 1 in 1,001
- Kentucky#136 · 1 in 993
- North Dakota#141 · 1 in 920
- Michigan#153 · 1 in 1,143
Best ever in a state: #90 in Wyoming, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | #115 | 6 | 1 in 670 |
| Ohio | #133 | 77 | 1 in 1,001 |
| Kentucky | #136 | 25 | 1 in 993 |
| North Dakota | #141 | 6 | 1 in 920 |
| Michigan | #153 | 57 | 1 in 1,143 |
| Maine | #162 | 6 | 1 in 1,204 |
| Iowa | #165 | 13 | 1 in 1,489 |
| Wisconsin | #169 | 22 | 1 in 1,552 |
| Indiana | #170 | 26 | 1 in 1,449 |
| Idaho | #174 | 7 | 1 in 1,033 |
| Missouri | #178 | 25 | 1 in 1,476 |
| Hawaii | #194 | 7 | 1 in 977 |
| Kansas | #204 | 11 | 1 in 1,577 |
| West Virginia | #213 | 5 | 1 in 2,316 |
| Virginia | #218 | 22 | 1 in 1,718 |
| Washington | #218 | 17 | 1 in 1,854 |
| Colorado | #220 | 14 | 1 in 1,798 |
| Maryland | #226 | 15 | 1 in 1,850 |
| Minnesota | #230 | 11 | 1 in 2,875 |
| Oregon | #234 | 9 | 1 in 2,022 |
| Arizona | #237 | 16 | 1 in 1,653 |
| Pennsylvania | #237 | 30 | 1 in 2,569 |
| Florida | #257 | 41 | 1 in 1,821 |
| Connecticut | #269 | 7 | 1 in 2,849 |
| Georgia | #269 | 21 | 1 in 2,056 |
| South Carolina | #278 | 10 | 1 in 2,136 |
| North Carolina | #282 | 17 | 1 in 2,384 |
| Utah | #284 | 7 | 1 in 2,431 |
| Alabama | #286 | 11 | 1 in 2,323 |
| Louisiana | #291 | 19 | 1 in 1,887 |
| Illinois | #292 | 32 | 1 in 2,571 |
| Massachusetts | #300 | 9 | 1 in 4,356 |
| Tennessee | #300 | 10 | 1 in 3,224 |
| California | #306 | 87 | 1 in 2,568 |
| Oklahoma | #339 | 7 | 1 in 3,370 |
| New York | #361 | 34 | 1 in 3,560 |
| Texas | #469 | 32 | 1 in 4,599 |
| New Jersey | #479 | 7 | 1 in 6,651 |
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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 Branden
- 719 spots since 2024 (#2,595 → #3,314)
- 1,442 spots since 2020 (#1,872 → #3,314)
- 2,257 spots since 2015 (#1,057 → #3,314)
- Biggest jump: 639 spots in 1970 (#1,570 → #931)
- Biggest drop: 159 spots in 2012 (#691 → #850)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1987 at #251 (913 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 44 yrs · run 1970–2013
- Highest: 1 in 1,737 boys born in 1992 were named Branden (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,802 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #251 in 1987, was only 1 in 2,045 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.2% of all boys named Branden (9,684) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,988 (1959) | #3,988 |
| 1960s | 152 | #1,282 (1968) | #2,360 |
| 1970s | 1,737 | #483 (1979) | #663 |
| 1980s | 7,415 | #251 (1987) | #293 |
| 1990s | 9,684 | #252 (1992) | #286 |
| 2000s | 6,200 | #338 (2000) | #443 |
| 2010s | 2,021 | #630 (2010) | #1,137 |
| 2020s | 323 | #1,872 (2020) | #2,567 |
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.
Branden in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 81,944 of them was named Branden, which outranked 69.2% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,730Vikki22
- #3,730Xochilt22
- #3,730Zakia22
- #3,852Branden21
- #3,852Abbe21
- #3,852Abigale21
- #3,852Adia21
- #3,983Adora20
- #3,983Aleena20
- #3,983Aleksandra20
Tied with 130 names at #3,852; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 2,282 of them was named Branden, which outranked 96.5% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.