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 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Hampshire#157 · 1 in 992
- Massachusetts#162 · 1 in 1,209
- Rhode Island#165 · 1 in 1,046
- Michigan#175 · 1 in 1,005
- Missouri#190 · 1 in 1,186
Best ever in a state: #98 in Vermont, 1983.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | #157 | 6 | 1 in 992 |
| Massachusetts | #162 | 30 | 1 in 1,209 |
| Rhode Island | #165 | 5 | 1 in 1,046 |
| Michigan | #175 | 59 | 1 in 1,005 |
| Missouri | #190 | 29 | 1 in 1,186 |
| Iowa | #194 | 14 | 1 in 1,161 |
| Oklahoma | #208 | 19 | 1 in 1,058 |
| Connecticut | #216 | 11 | 1 in 1,678 |
| Nebraska | #216 | 8 | 1 in 1,219 |
| Wisconsin | #221 | 19 | 1 in 1,513 |
| Utah | #226 | 16 | 1 in 1,195 |
| Kansas | #241 | 12 | 1 in 1,289 |
| West Virginia | #243 | 5 | 1 in 1,855 |
| Pennsylvania | #246 | 34 | 1 in 1,941 |
| Indiana | #252 | 22 | 1 in 1,696 |
| Ohio | #266 | 34 | 1 in 2,059 |
| Colorado | #270 | 17 | 1 in 1,471 |
| New Jersey | #278 | 22 | 1 in 2,186 |
| Washington | #298 | 19 | 1 in 1,775 |
| New York | #301 | 56 | 1 in 2,052 |
| Oregon | #314 | 10 | 1 in 1,935 |
| New Mexico | #320 | 6 | 1 in 1,777 |
| Florida | #328 | 41 | 1 in 2,095 |
| Arizona | #331 | 16 | 1 in 2,147 |
| North Carolina | #341 | 20 | 1 in 2,350 |
| Minnesota | #357 | 9 | 1 in 3,204 |
| South Carolina | #360 | 9 | 1 in 2,242 |
| Illinois | #378 | 29 | 1 in 2,746 |
| Arkansas | #381 | 6 | 1 in 2,443 |
| Louisiana | #412 | 11 | 1 in 2,443 |
| California | #422 | 64 | 1 in 3,837 |
| Texas | #428 | 49 | 1 in 3,205 |
| Maryland | #433 | 8 | 1 in 3,513 |
| Tennessee | #437 | 9 | 1 in 3,852 |
| Georgia | #449 | 15 | 1 in 3,346 |
| Virginia | #455 | 10 | 1 in 3,860 |
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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 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
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1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 2,392 of them was named Brendon, which outranked 96.9% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.