Boy · Old English
Brandon
Say it: BRAN-dun
Meaning
From an English surname from place names, Old English brōm 'broom (gorse)' + dūn 'hill'. It is not a form of Irish Brendan, though often confused with it.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Rare before the 1950s, it was a top-ten US boys' name in the early 1990s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1980s
In the United States
- 766,096 babies given this name since 1914
- At its height in 1985, about 1 in 63 boys
- 2,287 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Branden, Brandan
Famous bearers
- Brandon Lee, actor
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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