Brandin
Last seen for girls in 1991 at #13,147 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 95.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 125 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,752since 1972
Brandin over time
Rank among boys' names. Brandin has never cracked the top 800 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 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | #10,821 | 6 | |
| 2022 | — | #10,863 | 6 | |
| 2021 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2020 | — | #6,296 | 13 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,555 | 16 | |
| 2018 | — | #6,345 | 13 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,685 | 12 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,555 | 16 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,507 | 16 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,733 | 15 | |
| 2013 | — | #5,923 | 14 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,714 | 28 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,164 | 35 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,682 | 45 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,045 | 38 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,921 | 26 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,257 | 58 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,285 | 55 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,237 | 53 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,934 | 63 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,781 | 67 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,744 | 66 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,777 | 63 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,725 | 65 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,383 | 85 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,398 | 82 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,224 | 96 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,303 | 84 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,380 | 73 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,153 | 97 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,071 | 108 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,037 | 111 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #1,025 | 111 |
| 1990 | — | #1,037 | 104 | |
| 1989 | — | #940 | 117 | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #850 | 125 |
| 1987 | — | #968 | 95 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #892 | 104 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #917 | 98 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | #938 | 88 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | #1,022 | 75 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | #1,210 | 59 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | #1,207 | 57 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #1,410 | 45 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #1,943 | 27 |
| 1978 | — | #2,205 | 21 | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #2,008 | 24 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #2,054 | 23 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brandin! It came in at #3,963, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brandin
- 5,712 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #12,008)
- 6,501 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #12,008)
- Biggest jump: 118 spots in 1988 (#968 → #850)
- Biggest drop: 97 spots in 1990 (#940 → #1,037)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1988 at #850 (125 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1984–1989
- Highest: 1 in 15,314 boys born in 1988 were named Brandin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.6% of all boys named Brandin (951) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 137 | #1,943 (1979) | #2,729 |
| 1980s | 863 | #850 (1988) | #1,035 |
| 1990s | 951 | #1,025 (1991) | #1,201 |
| 2000s | 554 | #1,725 (2000) | #2,271 |
| 2010s | 210 | #2,682 (2010) | #5,086 |
| 2020s | 37 | #6,296 (2020) | #9,940 |
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.
Brandin in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 200,659 of them was named Brandin, which outranked 38.9% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,696Yehudis9
- #6,696Zanetta9
- #6,696Zora9
- #7,313Brandin8
- #7,313Abraham8
- #7,313Addrienne8
- #7,313Adreanne8
- #8,061Abena7
- #8,061Addi7
- #8,061Afia7
Tied with 747 names at #7,313; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 63,761 of them was named Brandin, which outranked 72.5% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,903Val28
- #1,903Wardell28
- #1,903Winfred28
- #1,943Brandin27
- #1,943Armon27
- #1,943Bj27
- #1,943Brandi27
- #1,991Addam26
- #1,991Ameer26
- #1,991Antjuan26
Tied with 47 names at #1,943; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.