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 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#521 · 1 in 3,863
- Georgia#545 · 1 in 3,986
- Ohio#989 · 1 in 13,401
- Texas#1,242 · 1 in 17,455
- Florida#1,325 · 1 in 17,994
Best ever in a state: #254 in Hawaii, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Alabama | #521 | 6 | 1 in 3,863 |
| Georgia | #545 | 14 | 1 in 3,986 |
| Ohio | #989 | 5 | 1 in 13,401 |
| Texas | #1,242 | 10 | 1 in 17,455 |
| Florida | #1,325 | 5 | 1 in 17,994 |
| California | #1,489 | 9 | 1 in 27,228 |
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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 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 18,145 of them was named Brannon, which outranked 89.8% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,258Shelby108
- #1,258Wendell108
- #1,258Zeke108
- #1,268Brannon107
- #1,268Arnav107
- #1,268Britton107
- #1,268Chancellor107
- #1,281Atticus106
- #1,281Cecil106
- #1,281Darrian106
Tied with 12 names at #1,268; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.