Meaning and history
From an English surname taken from a place name meaning “hill covered with broom,” from Old English brom “broom plant” and dun “hill,” Brandon was already rising on the American charts when child actor Brandon Cruz debuted on The Courtship of Eddie’s Father in 1969. After peaking in popularity in the 1980s and then declining, the name rebounded with the introduction of Brandon Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1990 and reached its American peak at rank sixth in 1992.
20062006: 12,686 births, rank #27
2007: 12,148 births, rank #31
2008: 11,482 births, rank #33
2009: 9,848 births, rank #38
2010: 8,549 births, rank #44
20112011: 7,821 births, rank #47
2012: 7,041 births, rank #56
2013: 6,235 births, rank #70
2014: 5,856 births, rank #71
2015: 5,128 births, rank #83
20162016: 4,101 births, rank #99
2017: 3,497 births, rank #114
2018: 3,214 births, rank #124
2019: 2,686 births, rank #141
2020: 2,312 births, rank #165
20212021: 2,135 births, rank #181
2022: 1,777 births, rank #210
2023: 1,665 births, rank #219
2024: 1,562 births, rank #230
20252025: 1,326 births, rank #261
Brandon moved from #230 to #261 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1992, with 29,628 births.