Brandin
Last seen for girls in 1991 at #13,147 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 95.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 125 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,752since 1972
Brandin over time
Rank among boys' names. Brandin has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | #10,821 | 6 | |
| 2022 | — | #10,863 | 6 | |
| 2021 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2020 | — | #6,296 | 13 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,555 | 16 | |
| 2018 | — | #6,345 | 13 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,685 | 12 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,555 | 16 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,507 | 16 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,733 | 15 | |
| 2013 | — | #5,923 | 14 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,714 | 28 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,164 | 35 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,682 | 45 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,045 | 38 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,921 | 26 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,257 | 58 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,285 | 55 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,237 | 53 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,934 | 63 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,781 | 67 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,744 | 66 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,777 | 63 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,725 | 65 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,383 | 85 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,398 | 82 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,224 | 96 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,303 | 84 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,380 | 73 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,153 | 97 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,071 | 108 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,037 | 111 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #1,025 | 111 |
| 1990 | — | #1,037 | 104 | |
| 1989 | — | #940 | 117 | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #850 | 125 |
| 1987 | — | #968 | 95 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #892 | 104 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #917 | 98 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | #938 | 88 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | #1,022 | 75 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | #1,210 | 59 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | #1,207 | 57 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #1,410 | 45 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #1,943 | 27 |
| 1978 | — | #2,205 | 21 | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #2,008 | 24 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #2,054 | 23 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brandin! It came in at #3,963, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Brandin is popular in 1972
No state had 5 or more boys named Brandin in 1972, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Brandin
- 5,712 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #12,008)
- 6,501 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #12,008)
- Biggest jump: 118 spots in 1988 (#968 → #850)
- Biggest drop: 97 spots in 1990 (#940 → #1,037)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1988 at #850 (125 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1984–1989
- Highest: 1 in 15,314 boys born in 1988 were named Brandin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.6% of all boys named Brandin (951) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 137 | #1,943 (1979) | #2,729 |
| 1980s | 863 | #850 (1988) | #1,035 |
| 1990s | 951 | #1,025 (1991) | #1,201 |
| 2000s | 554 | #1,725 (2000) | #2,271 |
| 2010s | 210 | #2,682 (2010) | #5,086 |
| 2020s | 37 | #6,296 (2020) | #9,940 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brandin in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 231,658 of them was named Brandin, which outranked 31.1% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,622Yamil8
- #3,622Yvette8
- #3,622Zenas8
- #3,963Brandin7
- #3,963Abayomi7
- #3,963Abdon7
- #3,963Adolf7
- #4,441Abelino6
- #4,441Abimael6
- #4,441Abrahm6
Tied with 477 names at #3,963; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.