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Brandan

#7,749 in 2025Boys' name

English equivalent of Brendan

Brandan has been given to 5,776 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #7,749 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 263 recorded.

Babies named Brandan, 2025

1 in 332,000

Brandan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brandan: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Brendan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brandan means

Brandan is a English equivalent of Brendan.

Origin, language, and formation

Brandan is used in Old French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Brendan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old French, Brandan is pronounced /bɾanˈdan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,680 boys were recorded with the name Brandan between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 263 in 1993; its best national rank was #637 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,060 in 2020 to #7,749 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,565 in 2015 to #7,749 in 2025.

In the United States, 96 girls were recorded with the name Brandan between 1974 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1985; its best national rank was #5,244 in 1976.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Brandan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,749
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brandan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brandan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brandans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brandan was born before 1993 — so the typical Brandan is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,680
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (2,227).

Is Brandan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+4,852
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,689
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,184
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.8%
Peak was 1993 (263)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#637
1993

Spellings of Brandan

Brandan is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 59.3% against Brandan's 0.44%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Brandan is used

Across 1910–2025, Brandan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 51,090 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3Indiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4Michigan1 in 33,333
  5. 5New York1 in 33,333
  6. 6Ohio1 in 33,333
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  8. 8Colorado1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Brandan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brandan around the world

Where Brandan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2016
    #3,079
    in 2016
  • Scotland
    2004–2010
    #548
    in 2010
  • Northern Ireland
    2005–2008
    #378
    in 2008
  • Ireland
    2001–2005
    #518
    in 2005
  • France
    1991–2000
    #3,635
    in 2000
  • Canada
    1991–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Brandan

People whose public names include Brandan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Brandan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Brandan. Linked forms have their own page here.

BrandBrandenBrandinBrandonBrendanBrandanoBrandanus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Brandan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,749
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,689
Best rank ever
#637
1993
Peak year
1993
263 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,680
Count in 2025
10

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,244
1976
Peak year
1985
13 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
96
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Brandan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BraydanBraedanBraulioBrandynBrannonBraidenBraedonBransonBradleeBraysonBraylinBrandinBradanBraytonBrandtBraylenBraedenBraedynBradynBraydonBraxtynBraxtenBraylonBraidan

Names with a curve like Brandan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Brandan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JessyJustenRashawnTerellNicklausTreverJarredGarettSchuylerDemarcoSpenserNikolaus

Sibling names for Brandan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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