Brendon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Principe
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɹɛndən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brendon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 4.6K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 7.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 424 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
17,654 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Principe
Sources 1
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brendon 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 | — | 17,654 | 1 in 19K | 18K | Brendon | 424 |
| ZA South Africa | #990 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Brendon | 109 |
| AU Australia | #609 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 78 | Brendon | 189 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,079 | 1 in 42K | 5.1K | — | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 3 | Brendon | 176 |
| NZ New Zealand | #277 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 10 | Brendon | 131 |
| LV Latvia | #999 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Brendon | 3 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 303 | — | 2 |
17,654 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; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Brendon 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 Azerbaijani, A transliteration of the English male given name Brandon
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Brandon Carterb. 1942AUnot in their usual nameAustralian physicist
- Brandon Leeb. 1965USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1965–1993)
- Brandon Sandersonb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican fantasy writer (born 1975)
- Brandon Routhb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Brandon Hunterb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (1980-2023)
- Brandon Trostb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican cinematographer, screenwriter, director, producer, and actor
- Brandon T. Jacksonb. 1984USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor, comedian and rapper
- Brendon Hartleyb. 1989NZNew Zealand racing driver
- Brandon Flynnb. 1993USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Brandon Pereab. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #1,727 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5K | #2,712 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.8K | #3,963 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 364 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 303 | #1,637 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 79 | #1,727 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1993 | 78 | #99 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 48 | — |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1988 | 45 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 36 | #2,712 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2009 | 10 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Brendon a male or female name?
- Brendon 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.
- What does the name Brendon mean, and where does it come from?
- Principe Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,….
- How do you pronounce Brendon?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹɛndən/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Brendon?
- In the etymology graph, Brendan, Brenden and Breandán are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Brendon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Brendon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brendon.
- How common is the name Brendon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,654 people named Brendon in 2020, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Brendon compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Brendon is the 277th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brendonThe 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, “Brendon” — the 277th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.