Brandyn
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to boys 91.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1992 · 259 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,764since 1968
Brandyn over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | #7,194 | 11 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | — | #6,220 | 14 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,215 | 18 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,494 | 22 | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | — | #4,003 | 26 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,793 | 28 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #2,840 | 42 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #3,681 | 29 |
| 2015 | — | #2,722 | 44 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,317 | 56 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,528 | 48 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,448 | 51 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,145 | 61 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,778 | 83 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #1,717 | 90 |
| 2008 | — | #1,639 | 94 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,593 | 98 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,427 | 109 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,485 | 97 | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #1,425 | 99 |
| 2003 | — | #1,173 | 127 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,223 | 112 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,027 | 143 | |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #973 | 154 |
| 1999 | — | #831 | 182 | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #790 | 193 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #828 | 175 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #757 | 195 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #727 | 216 |
| 1994 | — | #681 | 232 | |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #675 | 231 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #640 | 259 |
| 1991 | — | #703 | 207 | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #809 | 158 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #772 | 165 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | #767 | 151 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | #836 | 124 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 | #777 | 136 |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 | #882 | 106 |
| 1984 | #3,874 | 20 | #1,444 | 44 |
| 1983 | #3,949 | 19 | #1,399 | 45 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | #1,362 | 48 |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 | #1,548 | 39 |
| 1980 | #3,506 | 23 | #1,965 | 28 |
| 1979 | #2,997 | 28 | #2,310 | 21 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 | #2,473 | 18 |
| 1977 | #3,486 | 21 | #1,780 | 29 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | #2,417 | 18 |
| 1975 | #3,514 | 19 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | #1,848 | 47 | #2,549 | 15 |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brandyn! It came in at #3,365, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Brandyn is popular in 1983
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#609 · 1 in 12,513
- California#1,269 · 1 in 29,558
Best ever in a state: #160 in North Dakota, 1992.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #609 | 5 | 1 in 12,513 |
| California | #1,269 | 7 | 1 in 29,558 |
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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 Brandyn
- 1,118 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #7,194)
- 1,743 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #7,194)
- 4,472 spots since 2015 (#2,722 → #7,194)
- Biggest jump: 562 spots in 1985 (#1,444 → #882)
- Biggest drop: 142 spots in 2000 (#831 → #973)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1992 at #640 (259 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1985–2000
- Highest: 1 in 7,712 boys born in 1992 were named Brandyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.0% of all boys named Brandyn (2,048) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1979, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7 | #3,365 (1968) | #3,365 |
| 1970s | 142 | #1,780 (1977) | #3,066 |
| 1980s | 886 | #767 (1988) | #1,175 |
| 1990s | 2,048 | #640 (1992) | #744 |
| 2000s | 1,123 | #973 (2000) | #1,368 |
| 2010s | 468 | #1,778 (2010) | #2,826 |
| 2020s | 90 | #4,494 (2021) | #6,148 |
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.
Brandyn in 1983
Top girls' names in 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
girls
1,670,609 girls got a published name in 1983; 1 in 87,927 of them was named Brandyn, which outranked 67.3% of the 12,074 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,806Vianey20
- #3,806Xavier20
- #3,806Zina20
- #3,949Brandyn19
- #3,949Aimie19
- #3,949Aisling19
- #3,949Alicen19
- #4,109Aishah18
- #4,109Aleesha18
- #4,109Alessa18
Tied with 159 names at #3,949; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 39,835 of them was named Brandyn, which outranked 81.0% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,375Terrel46
- #1,375Tobin46
- #1,375Zebulon46
- #1,399Brandyn45
- #1,399Boris45
- #1,399Burke45
- #1,399Carnell45
- #1,429Artis44
- #1,429Delano44
- #1,429Denton44
Tied with 29 names at #1,399; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.