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
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 147 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,707since 1934
Brannon over time
Rank among boys' names. Brannon has never cracked the top 700 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 | — | #6,446 | 13 | |
| 2024 | — | #8,987 | 8 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,289 | 11 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,874 | 15 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,427 | 33 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,451 | 16 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,899 | 27 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,607 | 30 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,993 | 26 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,293 | 34 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,299 | 34 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,929 | 39 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,848 | 40 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,179 | 35 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,798 | 42 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,632 | 46 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,119 | 64 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,161 | 62 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,621 | 95 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,638 | 87 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,813 | 71 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,815 | 68 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,438 | 91 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,268 | 107 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,254 | 106 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,175 | 116 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,118 | 118 | |
| 1998 | — | #909 | 158 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,116 | 113 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,067 | 114 |
| 1995 | — | #956 | 135 | |
| 1994 | — | #994 | 125 | |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #1,071 | 108 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #987 | 119 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #1,183 | 88 |
| 1990 | — | #1,065 | 99 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,016 | 102 | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #1,108 | 81 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #974 | 94 |
| 1986 | — | #947 | 93 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #889 | 104 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #922 | 91 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #843 | 107 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #853 | 108 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #775 | 126 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #718 | 147 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #770 | 126 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #841 | 104 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #786 | 118 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #809 | 106 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | #805 | 107 |
| 1974 | — | #903 | 80 | |
| 1973 | — | #992 | 66 | |
| 1972 | — | #943 | 73 | |
| 1971 | — | #877 | 86 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,178 | 49 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,280 | 38 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,314 | 34 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,652 | 22 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,613 | 23 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,806 | 19 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,205 | 14 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,848 | 9 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
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| 1958 | — | #2,506 | 11 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,942 | 8 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,212 | 6 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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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 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#388 · 1 in 3,926
- Mississippi#402 · 1 in 3,473
- Louisiana#521 · 1 in 5,121
- North Carolina#566 · 1 in 8,105
- Texas#666 · 1 in 8,657
Best ever in a state: #254 in Hawaii, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #388 | 11 | 1 in 3,926 |
| Mississippi | #402 | 5 | 1 in 3,473 |
| Louisiana | #521 | 7 | 1 in 5,121 |
| North Carolina | #566 | 5 | 1 in 8,105 |
| Texas | #666 | 17 | 1 in 8,657 |
| Florida | #862 | 5 | 1 in 14,929 |
| California | #1,243 | 8 | 1 in 27,923 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Brannon
- 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)
- Debuted 1934
- Peaked 1980 at #718 (147 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 1971–1987
- 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
- 25.0% of all boys named Brannon (1,177) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #3,679 (1934) | #3,679 |
| 1940s | 16 | #3,212 (1942) | #3,483 |
| 1950s | 43 | #2,506 (1958) | #3,244 |
| 1960s | 182 | #1,280 (1969) | #2,241 |
| 1970s | 915 | #770 (1979) | #890 |
| 1980s | 1,053 | #718 (1980) | #905 |
| 1990s | 1,177 | #909 (1998) | #1,047 |
| 2000s | 867 | #1,175 (2000) | #1,630 |
| 2010s | 353 | #2,632 (2010) | #3,248 |
| 2020s | 96 | #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 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 344,166 of them was named Brannon, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,828 names at #10,677; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 17,771 of them was named Brannon, which outranked 88.3% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).