How popular is “Brandon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brandon” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brandon” 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 “Brandon” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brandon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brandon” 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
1914	11	0.000007766		11	-100%
1915	12	0.000006549		12	-100%
1916	16	0.000008271		16	-100%
1917	9	0.000004485		9	-100%
1918	15	0.000006909		15	-100%
1919	11	0.000005213		11	-100%
1920	9	0.000003978		9	-100%
1921	9	0.000003855		9	-100%
1922	14	0.000006116		14	-100%
1923	16	0.000006949		16	-100%
1924	12	0.000005039		12	-100%
1925	9	0.000003857		9	-100%
1926	17	0.000007404		17	-100%
1927	17	0.00000733		17	-100%
1928	9	0.000003981		9	-100%
1929	13	0.00000593		13	-100%
1930	12	0.000005397		12	-100%
1931	12	0.000005702		12	-100%
1932	9	0.000004263		9	-100%
1933	12	0.000006002		12	-100%
1934	6	0.000002889		6	-100%
1935	9	0.000004306		9	-100%
1936	12	0.000005776		12	-100%
1937	7	0.000003285		7	-100%
1938	7	0.000003164		7	-100%
1940	10	0.000004343		10	-100%
1941	10	0.000004104		10	-100%
1942	10	0.000003661		10	-100%
1943	17	0.000006023		17	-100%
1944	18	0.000006691		18	-100%
1945	10	0.000003769		10	-100%
1946	9	0.000002817		9	-100%
1947	31	0.000008606		31	-100%
1948	35	0.000010138		35	-100%
1949	42	0.000012052		42	-100%
1950	54	0.000015414		54	-100%
1951	50	0.000013573		50	-100%
1952	76	0.000020011		76	-100%
1953	113	0.000029323		113	-100%
1954	169	0.000042455	7	162	-92%
1955	112	0.000027895	8	104	-86%
1956	173	0.000041959	5	168	-94%
1957	131	0.000031175		131	-100%
1958	138	0.000033382	6	132	-91%
1959	192	0.000046176	6	186	-94%
1960	186	0.000044778		186	-100%
1961	199	0.000048041	6	193	-94%
1962	200	0.000049562	6	194	-94%
1963	266	0.000067202	7	259	-95%
1964	311	0.000079998	7	304	-95%
1965	402	0.000110883	7	395	-97%
1966	402	0.000115662	5	397	-98%
1967	496	0.000146102	13	483	-95%
1968	777	0.00022999	18	759	-95%
1969	1131	0.000325437	24	1107	-96%
1970	2581	0.00071565	37	2544	-97%
1971	3302	0.000962022	40	3262	-98%
1972	4675	0.001487435	50	4625	-98%
1973	5131	0.00170076	65	5066	-97%
1974	5940	0.001953948	81	5859	-97%
1975	7186	0.002379948	97	7089	-97%
1976	7888	0.002599611	98	7790	-98%
1977	8368	0.002634351	96	8272	-98%
1978	9341	0.002943095	100	9241	-98%
1979	11429	0.003435227	127	11302	-98%
1980	14298	0.004150958	136	14162	-98%
1981	20425	0.005904246	220	20205	-98%
1982	20416	0.005819903	201	20215	-98%
1983	23763	0.006861298	247	23516	-98%
1984	25906	0.007425572	235	25671	-98%
1985	29580	0.00828778	273	29307	-98%
1986	27522	0.00773725	269	27253	-98%
1987	25040	0.006944726	217	24823	-98%
1988	23910	0.006470831	166	23744	-99%
1989	23445	0.006098406	135	23310	-99%
1990	22247	0.005628621	85	22162	-99%
1991	26085	0.006696592	63	26022	-100%
1992	29723	0.0077378	96	29627	-99%
1993	28836	0.00764824	101	28735	-99%
1994	29584	0.007957709	94	29490	-99%
1995	26990	0.007369977	86	26904	-99%
1996	25928	0.007109025	81	25847	-99%
1997	25254	0.006965181	58	25196	-100%
1998	23883	0.006493109	53	23830	-100%
1999	21645	0.005859713	43	21602	-100%
2000	20379	0.005391407	42	20337	-100%
2001	17932	0.00479031	40	17892	-100%
2002	16313	0.004363759	32	16281	-100%
2003	15270	0.00401597	25	15245	-100%
2004	14194	0.003714809	59	14135	-99%
2005	12976	0.003374909	30	12946	-100%
2006	12709	0.003212435	23	12686	-100%
2007	12158	0.003041262	13	12145	-100%
2008	11495	0.002924442	14	11481	-100%
2009	9858	0.00258051	11	9847	-100%
2010	8562	0.002316722	14	8548	-100%
2011	7836	0.002142276	16	7820	-100%
2012	7054	0.00192871	15	7039	-100%
2013	6242	0.001712169	8	6234	-100%
2014	5856	0.00157998		5856	-100%
2015	5134	0.001387226	8	5126	-100%
2016	4101	0.001117835		4101	-100%
2017	3505	0.000980092	8	3497	-100%
2018	3216	0.000914703	6	3210	-100%
2019	2691	0.000775296	6	2685	-100%
2020	2312	0.000692096		2312	-100%
2021	2134	0.00062988		2134	-100%
2022	1774	0.000524366		1774	-100%
2023	1664	0.000502537		1664	-100%
2024	1553	0.000466576		1553	-100%

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