Brandón

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Brandón is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In New Caledonia it is the 27th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English Brandon, Brampdon, Bramdun, Bremedon, Bromdun, from Old English brōmdūn, from brōm (“broom shrub”) + dūn (“hill, dune”). Doublet of English Branton.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 518(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 780
  • BRBrazil1 in 169K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

642,620 people, 2020

Sources
383 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 518 (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Brandon in US United States, CR Costa Rica, BR Brazil and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Brandón: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Brandón
  1. Middle EnglishBrandon(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishbrōmdūn(measured from records)
  3. Old English rootbrōm“broom shrub”(measured from records)

From Middle English Brandon, Brampdon, Bramdun, Bremedon, Bromdun, from Old English brōmdūn, from brōm (“broom shrub”) + dūn (“hill, dune”). Doublet of English Branton.

Sources 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Brandón counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Brandón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—642,6201 in 518641KBrandon383
CR Costa Rica#936,5391 in 7806.5KBrandon82
EC Ecuador—5,5741 in 3K5.6K—36
BR Brazil—1,2511 in 169K1.3KBrandon92
ES Spain—9341 in 54K934Brandon85
GY Guyana—4601 in 1.6K460——
SE Sweden—4261 in 24K426—12
NC New Caledonia#27———Brandon12

642,620 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Brandón is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name176 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Hindi

    Also written Brandon, Brendan, Branden

  • Lao given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, United Kingdom

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Brandon, Brando, แบรนดอน, แบรนด้อน, B'Randon

  • Catalan given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Andorra

    Also written Brandon

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Brandon

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Brandon

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Brandón is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, wax candle

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Brandón under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Brandón mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English Brandon, Brampdon, Bramdun, Bremedon, Bromdun, from Old English brōmdūn, from brōm (“broom shrub”) + dūn (“hill, dune”). Doublet of English Branton. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
Is Brandón a male or female name?
Brandón is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Brandón have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 643 thousand people named Brandón, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brandon.
Where is Brandón most common?
Brandón is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 518 people carrying it.
How common is the name Brandón?
In the United States, the national register counted 642,620 people named Brandón in 2020, about 1 in 518 residents.
How common is Brandón compared with other names?
In New Caledonia, Brandón is the 27th most common given name of 870 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brandón” — the 27th most common given name in New Caledonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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