Branson
Last seen for girls in 2003 at #15,784 · #1,222 for boys in 2025, 165 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 377 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,226since 1912
Branson over time
Rank among boys' names. Branson has never cracked the top 600 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 | — | #1,222 | 165 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,099 | 196 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,088 | 197 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,002 | 222 | |
| 2021 | — | #927 | 244 | |
| 2020 | — | #875 | 258 | |
| 2019 | — | #811 | 281 | |
| 2018 | — | #769 | 302 | |
| 2017 | — | #722 | 332 | |
| 2016 | — | #681 | 368 | |
| 2015 | — | #694 | 363 | |
| 2014 | — | #674 | 377 | |
| 2013 | — | #679 | 355 | |
| 2012 | — | #691 | 343 | |
| 2011 | — | #732 | 310 | |
| 2010 | — | #854 | 248 | |
| 2009 | — | #812 | 273 | |
| 2008 | — | #871 | 244 | |
| 2007 | — | #912 | 217 | |
| 2006 | — | #873 | 227 | |
| 2005 | — | #967 | 180 | |
| 2004 | — | #949 | 177 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #1,016 | 155 |
| 2002 | — | #1,019 | 151 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,004 | 151 | |
| 2000 | — | #977 | 152 | |
| 1999 | — | #931 | 157 | |
| 1998 | — | #931 | 151 | |
| 1997 | — | #873 | 159 | |
| 1996 | — | #999 | 125 | |
| 1995 | — | #987 | 126 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,140 | 99 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,168 | 91 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,820 | 45 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,867 | 42 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,049 | 36 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,793 | 42 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,035 | 31 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,938 | 32 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,096 | 27 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,794 | 33 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,690 | 34 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,017 | 26 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,890 | 29 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,766 | 32 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,444 | 20 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,711 | 33 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,473 | 18 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,556 | 17 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,601 | 16 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,946 | 12 | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,686 | 13 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,282 | 7 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | #2,709 | 9 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,580 | 9 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,633 | 8 | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
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| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | #2,542 | 9 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,849 | 8 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | #2,703 | 10 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,139 | 8 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
| 1924 | — | — | ||
| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
| 1922 | — | — | ||
| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,096 | 8 | |
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| 1915 | — | #2,621 | 9 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,651 | 7 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,045 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Branson! It came in at #2,045, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1913, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Branson is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#256 · 1 in 1,193
- Louisiana#257 · 1 in 1,152
- Kentucky#308 · 1 in 1,706
- Nebraska#361 · 1 in 1,649
- North Carolina#366 · 1 in 2,198
Best ever in a state: #144 in West Virginia, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #256 | 7 | 1 in 1,193 |
| Louisiana | #257 | 21 | 1 in 1,152 |
| Kentucky | #308 | 13 | 1 in 1,706 |
| Nebraska | #361 | 6 | 1 in 1,649 |
| North Carolina | #366 | 23 | 1 in 2,198 |
| Alabama | #386 | 11 | 1 in 2,018 |
| Tennessee | #386 | 17 | 1 in 2,105 |
| Ohio | #420 | 21 | 1 in 2,846 |
| Oklahoma | #463 | 9 | 1 in 2,251 |
| Georgia | #488 | 18 | 1 in 3,001 |
| Indiana | #514 | 11 | 1 in 3,243 |
| Pennsylvania | #548 | 15 | 1 in 4,015 |
| Oregon | #580 | 5 | 1 in 3,614 |
| Virginia | #589 | 10 | 1 in 4,182 |
| South Carolina | #661 | 5 | 1 in 4,182 |
| Washington | #673 | 8 | 1 in 4,491 |
| Texas | #674 | 34 | 1 in 5,225 |
| Maryland | #675 | 6 | 1 in 4,623 |
| Colorado | #677 | 6 | 1 in 4,525 |
| Florida | #761 | 16 | 1 in 5,748 |
| Michigan | #771 | 8 | 1 in 5,955 |
| Arizona | #780 | 6 | 1 in 6,165 |
| California | #995 | 21 | 1 in 10,976 |
| Illinois | #1,352 | 5 | 1 in 13,303 |
| New York | #1,598 | 6 | 1 in 17,384 |
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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 Branson
- 123 spots since 2024 (#1,099 → #1,222)
- 347 spots since 2020 (#875 → #1,222)
- 528 spots since 2015 (#694 → #1,222)
- Biggest jump: 153 spots in 1995 (#1,140 → #987)
- Biggest drop: 75 spots in 2022 (#927 → #1,002)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2014 at #674 (377 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 2004–2021
- Highest: 1 in 5,095 boys born in 2014 were named Branson (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,352 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 39.9% of all boys named Branson (3,279) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 36 | #2,045 (1912) | #2,916 |
| 1920s | 54 | #2,703 (1927) | #3,250 |
| 1930s | 44 | #2,542 (1933) | #3,294 |
| 1940s | 41 | #2,633 (1944) | #3,277 |
| 1950s | 48 | #2,580 (1950) | #3,252 |
| 1960s | 46 | #3,077 (1960) | #3,489 |
| 1970s | 132 | #1,711 (1979) | #2,964 |
| 1980s | 306 | #1,690 (1984) | #1,946 |
| 1990s | 1,031 | #873 (1997) | #1,277 |
| 2000s | 1,927 | #812 (2009) | #940 |
| 2010s | 3,279 | #674 (2014) | #731 |
| 2020s | 1,282 | #875 (2020) | #1,036 |
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.
Branson in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 5,530 of them was named Branson, which outranked 95.2% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.