How popular is “Brandan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brandan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brandan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Brandan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Brandan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Brandan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Brandan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brandan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1955	5	0.000001245		5	-100%
1956	10	0.000002425		10	-100%
1958	7	0.000001693		7	-100%
1959	5	0.000001203		5	-100%
1960	12	0.000002889		12	-100%
1961	6	0.000001448		6	-100%
1962	8	0.000001982		8	-100%
1963	8	0.000002021		8	-100%
1965	9	0.000002482		9	-100%
1966	8	0.000002302		8	-100%
1967	10	0.000002946		10	-100%
1968	13	0.000003848		13	-100%
1969	10	0.000002877		10	-100%
1970	14	0.000003882		14	-100%
1971	16	0.000004662		16	-100%
1972	36	0.000011454		36	-100%
1973	42	0.000013922		42	-100%
1974	38	0.0000125	8	30	-58%
1975	49	0.000016228		49	-100%
1976	65	0.000021422	11	54	-66%
1977	57	0.000017944	8	49	-72%
1978	58	0.000018274	6	52	-79%
1979	62	0.000018635		62	-100%
1980	96	0.00002787	8	88	-83%
1981	109	0.000031509		109	-100%
1982	100	0.000028507	6	94	-88%
1983	107	0.000030895	5	102	-91%
1984	142	0.000040702	5	137	-93%
1985	189	0.000052954	13	176	-86%
1986	200	0.000056226	11	189	-89%
1987	195	0.000054082	5	190	-95%
1988	173	0.000046819	5	168	-94%
1989	210	0.000054624	5	205	-95%
1990	186	0.000047059		186	-100%
1991	251	0.000064437		251	-100%
1992	248	0.000064562		248	-100%
1993	263	0.000069756		263	-100%
1994	213	0.000057294		213	-100%
1995	228	0.000062258		228	-100%
1996	227	0.00006224		227	-100%
1997	189	0.000052127		189	-100%
1998	210	0.000057093		210	-100%
1999	212	0.000057392		212	-100%
2000	185	0.000048943		185	-100%
2001	155	0.000041406		155	-100%
2002	121	0.000032368		121	-100%
2003	115	0.000030245		115	-100%
2004	113	0.000029574		113	-100%
2005	100	0.000026009		100	-100%
2006	87	0.000021991		87	-100%
2007	100	0.000025014		100	-100%
2008	80	0.000020353		80	-100%
2009	55	0.000014397		55	-100%
2010	63	0.000017047		63	-100%
2011	45	0.000012303		45	-100%
2012	44	0.000012031		44	-100%
2013	23	0.000006309		23	-100%
2014	30	0.000008094		30	-100%
2015	21	0.000005674		21	-100%
2016	19	0.000005179		19	-100%
2017	19	0.000005313		19	-100%
2018	25	0.000007111		25	-100%
2019	26	0.000007491		26	-100%
2020	18	0.000005388		18	-100%
2021	8	0.000002361		8	-100%
2022	5	0.000001478		5	-100%
2023	8	0.000002416		8	-100%
2024	5	0.000001502		5	-100%

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