Brandon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Brandon, a place name in England; or from the French oblique case of the Germanic personal name Brando
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɹændən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brandon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ireland it is the 85th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 518(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 1.6K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Brandon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #306 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 644 (measured from records)
- 1 in 518 (inferred from the name graph)
642,620 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Brendan in AU Australia, IE Ireland.
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)
Person from Brandon, a place name in England; or from the French oblique case of the Germanic personal name Brando.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brandon 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #118 | 642,620 | 1 in 518 | 641K | Brandon | 644 |
| GB United Kingdom | #279 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 7 | Brandon | 287 |
| CA Canada | #209 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 5 | Brandon | 326 |
| AU Australia | #144 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 103 | Brendan | 295 |
| ZA South Africa | #267 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Brandon | 139 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 6,539 | 1 in 780 | 6.5K | — | 3 |
| IE Ireland | #85 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 872 | 25 | Brendan | 173 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Brandon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, English surname/place name, from Old English brōm 'broom' + dūn 'hill'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Mainly North American: transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of various places so called, most of which get their name from Old English brom ‘broom’, ‘gorse’ + dain ‘hill’. In some cases it may be an altered form of Brendan. There has perhaps also been some influence from the 29 surname of the Italian American actor Marlon Brando (b. 1924).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, An English habitational surname from Old English from any of several places of that name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Forme dérivée de Brendan; origine celtique, signifie « corbeau ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Irish, In Kerry this is Mac Breandáin, a branch of the Fitzmaurices; elsewhere, as de Brandon, of English origin. Brendon is an occasional synonym
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Brandon Carterb. 1942AUAustralian physicist
- Brandon Leeb. 1965USAmerican actor (1965–1993)
- Brandon Sandersonb. 1975USAmerican fantasy writer (born 1975)
- Brandon Routhb. 1979USAmerican actor
- Brandon Hunterb. 1980USAmerican basketball player (1980-2023)
- Brandon Trostb. 1981USAmerican cinematographer, screenwriter, director, producer, and actor
- Brandon T. Jacksonb. 1984USAmerican actor, comedian and rapper
- Brandon Rushb. 1985USAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
- Brandon Flynnb. 1993USAmerican actor
- Brandon Pereab. 1995USAmerican actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 104 sources across 55 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 641K | #62 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 6.5K | #109 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #62 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.3K | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2005 | 103 | #93 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2006 | 68 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 54 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1995 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 5 | #795 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brandon mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Brandon, a place name in England; or from the French oblique case of the Germanic personal name Brando. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Brandon a male or female name?
- Brandon 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 Brandon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 643 thousand people named Brandon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brandon.
- Where is Brandon most common?
- Brandon is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 518 people carrying it.
- How do you pronounce Brandon?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹændən/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Brandon?
- In the etymology graph, Branden is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Brandon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 642,620 people named Brandon in 2020, about 1 in 518 residents.
- How common is Brandon compared with other names?
- In the United States, Brandon is the 118th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brandonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Brandon” — the 118th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.