Brandyn

Where Brandyn comes from

Brandyn hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #3,365 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1989
    Brandyn Thompson born
    American player of American and Canadian football
  4. 1991
    Brandyn Curry born
    American basketball player
  5. 1992
    Peak, #640
    259 babies named Brandyn — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,223.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Brandyn Curry · American basketball player, born 1991
  • Brandyn Thompson · American player of American and Canadian football, born 1989
  • Brandyn Dombrowski · American football player, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.