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Brannon

#6,504 in 2025Boys' name

Irish surname transferred into given-name use

Brannon has been given to 4,823 babies in the U.S. since 1934. In 2025 it ranked #6,504 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 158 recorded.

Babies named Brannon, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brannon: meaning, origin, and history

Irish surname transferred into given-name use

Irish surname transfer

What Brannon means

Brannon is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Brannon is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɹæn.ən/ for Brannon.

The naming story behind Brannon

Brannon is a given name adopted from Irish surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,707 boys were recorded with the name Brannon between 1934 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 158 in 1998; its best national rank was #722 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,487 in 2020 to #6,504 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,302 in 2015 to #6,504 in 2025.

In the United States, 116 girls were recorded with the name Brannon between 1975 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1983; its best national rank was #6,267 in 1983.

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.

How common is Brannon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,504
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brannon 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brannon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brannons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brannon was born before 1991 — so the typical Brannon is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,686
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Choose a decade

1990s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (1,177).

Is Brannon 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
+2,599
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,017
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,202
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.2%
Peak was 1998 (158)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#722
1980

Spellings of Brannon

Brannon is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 69.4% against Brannon's 0.42%.

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 Brannon is used

Across 1910–2025, Brannon was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 53,085 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 11,111
  2. 2Alabama1 in 12,500
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 14,286
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 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. Brannon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brannon around the world

Where Brannon 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
    1996–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1995–2000
    #1,770
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1991–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Brannon

People whose public names include Brannon, 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.

Brannon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,504
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,017
Best rank ever
#722
1980
Peak year
1998
158 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,707
Count in 2025
13

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,267
1983
Peak year
1983
10 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
116
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Brannon

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

BrandynBraulioBraedonBrandanBradleeBraysonBraylinBraidenBrandinBransonBraytonBraedynBradynBraxtynBraxtenBrandtBraylenBraedenBraydonBranonBraelynBraylanBrennonBraydan

Names with a curve like Brannon

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

DejuanDedrickLaronDontaSharifJadeDericCedrickJarretKedrickTarikBenjamen

Sibling names for Brannon

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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