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Branwen

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Welsh origin

Branwen has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Branwen, 2019

1 in 694,000

Branwen over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Branwen: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Welsh origin

Welsh

What Branwen means

Branwen is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Branwen is used in English. Its origins include Welsh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Branwen is pronounced /ˈbɹæn.wɛn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 42 girls were recorded with the name Branwen between 1975 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1975; its best national rank was #8,088 in 1975.

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 Branwen?

Branwen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Branwen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Branwen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Branwens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Branwen was born before 2008 — so the typical Branwen is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
42
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Branwen 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (6)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,088
1975

Spellings of Branwen

Branwen is not the most common spelling — Brandee is, with 31.7% against Branwen's 0.24%.

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.

Branwen around the world

Where Branwen 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
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2001
    #4,834
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Branwen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,088
1975
Peak year
1975
6 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
42
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Branwen

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

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Sibling names for Branwen

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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