first name
BRANDON
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 642,620 people named Brandon, 62% reported their origin as White, 15% as Hispanic or Latino and 14.2% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Brandon peaked in 1992, when 29,724 babies got the name.
At least 774,654 babies have been given the name since 1914. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Brandon by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #13. The largest share of babies named Brandon, 52.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Brandon is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Brandon has been most common in Nevada (2×), Alaska (1.7×), and Hawaii (1.5×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.49×).
771,242 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Brandon
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Brandon, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Brandon ranks #1,448 of 156,621, with 23,986 people. See Brandon as a last name
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