Brannon

Last seen for girls in 1996 at #11,807 · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to boys 97.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
1980 · 147 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,707
since 1934

Brannon over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Brannon has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201934peak #718, 1980boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#6,44613
2024—#8,9878
2023—#7,28911
2022—#5,87415
2021—#3,42733
2020—#5,45116
2019—#3,89927
2018—#3,60730
2017—#3,99326
2016—#3,29334
2015—#3,29934
2014—#2,92939
2013—#2,84840
2012—#3,17935
2011—#2,79842
2010—#2,63246
2009—#2,11964
2008—#2,16162
2007—#1,62195
2006—#1,63887
2005—#1,81371
2004—#1,81568
2003—#1,43891
2002—#1,268107
2001—#1,254106
2000—#1,175116
1999—#1,118118
1998—#909158
1997—#1,116113
1996#11,8076#1,067114
1995—#956135
1994—#994125
1993#10,5887#1,071108
1992#9,4918#987119
1991#11,5096#1,18388
1990—#1,06599
1989—#1,016102
1988#10,3866#1,10881
1987#8,7787#97494
1986—#94793
1985#10,6775#889104
1984#9,1446#92291
1983#6,21210#843107
1982#7,4698#853108
1981#10,4115#775126
1980#7,4188#718147
1979#7,3138#770126
1978#6,9488#841104
1977#7,5677#786118
1976#9,2845#809106
1975#7,9846#805107
1974—#90380
1973—#99266
1972—#94373
1971—#87786
1970—#1,17849
1969—#1,28038
1968—#1,31434
1967—#1,65222
1966—#1,61323
1965—#1,80619
1964—#2,20514
1963—#2,67310
1962—#2,8489
1961—#3,3567
1960—#3,6656
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1958—#2,50611
1957—#3,9935
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1955—#3,2017
1954—#2,9428
1953—#3,1437
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First appearance
1934

The first year at least five boys were named Brannon! It came in at #3,679, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1934–1941, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Brannon is popular in 1934

No state had 5 or more boys named Brannon in 1934, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Brannon
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 2,541 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #6,446)
  • 995 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #6,446)
  • 3,147 spots since 2015 (#3,299 → #6,446)
  • Biggest jump: 301 spots in 1971 (#1,178 → #877)
  • Biggest drop: 209 spots in 1999 (#909 → #1,118)
Rise & fade · boys
46 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1934
  • Peaked 1980 at #718 (147 births)
  • Births halved by 2004, 24 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 21 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 1971–1987
Share of babies · boys
1 in 12,097
  • Highest: 1 in 12,097 boys born in 1998 were named Brannon (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #718 in 1980, was only 1 in 12,136 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 25.0% of all boys named Brannon (1,177) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s5#3,679 (1934)#3,679
1940s16#3,212 (1942)#3,483
1950s43#2,506 (1958)#3,244
1960s182#1,280 (1969)#2,241
1970s915#770 (1979)#890
1980s1,053#718 (1980)#905
1990s1,177#909 (1998)#1,047
2000s867#1,175 (2000)#1,630
2010s353#2,632 (2010)#3,248
2020s96#3,427 (2021)#6,246

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.

Brannon in 1934

boys
#3,679
5 births · 1 in 206,519 boys

Top boys' names in 1934

  1. #1Robert55,843
  2. #2James54,270
  3. #3John46,743
  4. #4William40,175
  5. #5Richard33,167
  6. #6Donald30,408
  7. #7Charles29,790
  8. #8George18,500
  9. #9Thomas17,373
  10. #10Joseph17,111
  11. #3,679Brannon5
More about 1934

boys

1,032,596 boys got a published name in 1934; 1 in 206,519 of them was named Brannon, which outranked 12.5% of the 4,205 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Brannon
  1. #3,277Zachariah6
  2. #3,277Zander6
  3. #3,277Zeno6
  4. #3,679Brannon5
  5. #3,679Abb5
  6. #3,679Acencion5
  7. #3,679Achille5

Tied with 526 names at #3,679; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1933
Risers
  1. ↑ 746Lanny#1,361 → #615
  2. ↑ 630Kerry#1,586 → #956
  3. ↑ 620Marland#1,456 → #836
  4. ↑ 404Kirk#1,202 → #798
  5. ↑ 350Valentin#1,281 → #931
Fallers
  1. ↓ 730Neville#995 → #1,725
  2. ↓ 616Garner#770 → #1,386
  3. ↓ 520Vivian#905 → #1,425
  4. ↓ 488Finis#869 → #1,357
  5. ↓ 464Malcom#961 → #1,425

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1934 →