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Brando

#5,643 in 2025Boys' name

Fire, torch, sword

Brando has been given to 2,102 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #5,643 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Brando, 2025

1 in 207,000

Brando over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brando: meaning, origin, and history

Fire, torch, sword

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brando means

Brando means “fire, torch, sword”.

Origin, language, and formation

Brando is used in Italian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Brando is pronounced /ˈbran.do/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,102 boys were recorded with the name Brando between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,413 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,827 in 2020 to #5,643 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,812 in 2015 to #5,643 in 2025.

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 Brando?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,643
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brando 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brando. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brandos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brando was born before 2004 — so the typical Brando is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,102
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (794).

Is Brando 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
−1,553
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,816
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,831
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.4%
Peak was 2005 (104)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,413
2005

Spellings of Brando

Brando is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 49.3% against Brando's 0.13%.

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 Brando is used

Across 1910–2025, Brando was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 69,860 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 in —

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. Brando has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brando around the world

Where Brando 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
    2001–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1995–2007
    #5,473
    in 2007
  • Canada
    2001–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1962–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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

Notable people named Brando

People whose public names include Brando, 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.

Brando in other languages

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

BrankoBrandonBraňo

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

Brando by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,643
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,816
Best rank ever
#1,413
2005
Peak year
2005
104 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,102
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Brando

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

BradonBrandyBranchBravenBraxtynBradynBraedynBraxtenBraytonBrandinBrandtBraylinBraysonBraelynBraylanBradleeBraydanBralynBraedonBraydinBradlyBrannonBrandynBransen

Names with a curve like Brando

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

KevynJacoreyDavenTravionFavianTyrenJavinKaronEvinJalilYovaniMiguelangel

Sibling names for Brando

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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