Brendon
Last seen for girls in 1993 at #13,442 · #2,676 for boys in 2025, 48 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 868 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 20,081since 1927
Brendon over time
Rank among boys' names. Brendon has never cracked the top 300 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 | — | #2,676 | 48 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,559 | 52 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,173 | 66 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,589 | 52 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,853 | 83 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,069 | 68 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,507 | 113 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,317 | 138 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,478 | 114 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,413 | 124 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,116 | 172 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,070 | 181 | |
| 2013 | — | #986 | 202 | |
| 2012 | — | #800 | 281 | |
| 2011 | — | #737 | 307 | |
| 2010 | — | #634 | 384 | |
| 2009 | — | #571 | 464 | |
| 2008 | — | #581 | 442 | |
| 2007 | — | #530 | 484 | |
| 2006 | — | #506 | 513 | |
| 2005 | — | #470 | 531 | |
| 2004 | — | #459 | 563 | |
| 2003 | — | #430 | 592 | |
| 2002 | — | #400 | 643 | |
| 2001 | — | #394 | 641 | |
| 2000 | — | #348 | 787 | |
| 1999 | — | #330 | 823 | |
| 1998 | — | #318 | 868 | |
| 1997 | — | #332 | 788 | |
| 1996 | — | #349 | 703 | |
| 1995 | — | #379 | 624 | |
| 1994 | — | #343 | 719 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #400 | 579 |
| 1992 | — | #364 | 649 | |
| 1991 | — | #380 | 595 | |
| 1990 | — | #451 | 485 | |
| 1989 | — | #422 | 489 | |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | #471 | 378 |
| 1987 | — | #435 | 410 | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #461 | 360 |
| 1985 | — | #486 | 319 | |
| 1984 | — | #481 | 300 | |
| 1983 | — | #542 | 240 | |
| 1982 | — | #543 | 251 | |
| 1981 | — | #579 | 218 | |
| 1980 | — | #602 | 208 | |
| 1979 | — | #601 | 203 | |
| 1978 | — | #686 | 149 | |
| 1977 | — | #609 | 189 | |
| 1976 | — | #625 | 173 | |
| 1975 | — | #594 | 184 | |
| 1974 | — | #732 | 123 | |
| 1973 | — | #760 | 111 | |
| 1972 | — | #778 | 105 | |
| 1971 | — | #789 | 104 | |
| 1970 | — | #737 | 124 | |
| 1969 | — | #740 | 112 | |
| 1968 | — | #696 | 118 | |
| 1967 | — | #915 | 62 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,345 | 32 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,559 | 25 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,581 | 25 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,902 | 18 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,713 | 22 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,778 | 21 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,530 | 11 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,631 | 10 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,497 | 11 | |
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | #2,743 | 9 | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | #2,376 | 11 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,453 | 10 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,109 | 6 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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| 1932 | — | #2,849 | 8 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brendon! It came in at #3,151, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1928–1931, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Brendon is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#158 · 1 in 1,509
- Connecticut#266 · 1 in 2,902
- Arizona#289 · 1 in 2,268
- Kansas#289 · 1 in 2,877
- Colorado#293 · 1 in 2,797
Best ever in a state: #98 in Vermont, 1983.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #158 | 26 | 1 in 1,509 |
| Connecticut | #266 | 7 | 1 in 2,902 |
| Arizona | #289 | 12 | 1 in 2,268 |
| Kansas | #289 | 6 | 1 in 2,877 |
| Colorado | #293 | 9 | 1 in 2,797 |
| New York | #307 | 47 | 1 in 2,600 |
| Utah | #330 | 5 | 1 in 3,304 |
| Michigan | #333 | 16 | 1 in 3,989 |
| Indiana | #355 | 8 | 1 in 4,619 |
| Oklahoma | #386 | 6 | 1 in 3,748 |
| California | #413 | 56 | 1 in 4,077 |
| Maryland | #418 | 5 | 1 in 5,659 |
| Pennsylvania | #440 | 11 | 1 in 7,019 |
| Alabama | #441 | 5 | 1 in 5,056 |
| Florida | #452 | 16 | 1 in 4,776 |
| Missouri | #452 | 6 | 1 in 5,996 |
| Illinois | #468 | 15 | 1 in 5,321 |
| Virginia | #523 | 5 | 1 in 7,563 |
| New Jersey | #542 | 6 | 1 in 7,930 |
| Texas | #572 | 23 | 1 in 6,362 |
| Ohio | #619 | 6 | 1 in 12,582 |
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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 Brendon
- 117 spots since 2024 (#2,559 → #2,676)
- 607 spots since 2020 (#2,069 → #2,676)
- 1,560 spots since 2015 (#1,116 → #2,676)
- Biggest jump: 430 spots in 1967 (#1,345 → #915)
- Biggest drop: 186 spots in 2013 (#800 → #986)
- Debuted 1927
- Peaked 1998 at #318 (868 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 47 yrs · run 1967–2013
- Highest: 1 in 2,202 boys born in 1998 were named Brendon (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 35,585 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.0% of all boys named Brendon (6,833) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 8 | #3,151 (1927) | #3,151 |
| 1930s | 19 | #2,849 (1932) | #3,160 |
| 1940s | 26 | #2,453 (1949) | #3,184 |
| 1950s | 69 | #2,376 (1952) | #2,931 |
| 1960s | 443 | #696 (1968) | #1,531 |
| 1970s | 1,465 | #594 (1975) | #691 |
| 1980s | 3,173 | #422 (1989) | #502 |
| 1990s | 6,833 | #318 (1998) | #365 |
| 2000s | 5,660 | #348 (2000) | #469 |
| 2010s | 2,016 | #634 (2010) | #1,106 |
| 2020s | 369 | #1,853 (2021) | #2,320 |
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.
Brendon in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 245,078 of them was named Brendon, which outranked 33.6% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,749Zola8
- #7,749Zoraya8
- #7,749Zyanya8
- #8,523Brendon7
- #8,523Aaisha7
- #8,523Abagael7
- #8,523Abbygail7
- #9,545Aasiya6
- #9,545Abrianna6
- #9,545Adaeze6
Tied with 1,021 names at #8,523; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 5,115 of them was named Brendon, which outranked 94.1% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.