Branden
Branden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 51 births. Its best rank was 251st, in 1987.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 510.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19921,150 births
- Best rank
- #251in 1987
- Since 1959
- 27,501people given the name
The story in the numbers
27,501 boys have been named Branden in the United States since 1959, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 1,150 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 1990s alone account for 35%. It has spent 44 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1992, its biggest year
Branden was the 252nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1992 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1992.
Names that rose and fell with Branden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Johnathonpeak 1990
- Brandanpeak 1993
- Brandinpeak 1988
- Brandonpeak 1992
- Terellpeak 1994
- Kunalpeak 1994
- Dontepeak 1997
- Vishalpeak 2003
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.