Brandan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Brandan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Brandan: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #307 in 2005, and it was last ranked in 2016.

3registrars recorded it
25times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#307highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2016

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#704
1997	#505
1998	#477
1999	#426
2000	#422
2001	#473
2002	#516
2003	#653
2004	#599
2005	#605
2006	#733
2007	#1079
2008	#1156
2009	#1067
2010	#1407
2011	#1909
2012	#3416
2013	#3822
2014	#3362
2015	#4747
2016	#3079

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2016.

In 2008: #378 among boys in Northern Ireland, #1156 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2016 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #704 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2005–2008
Highest recorded position: #307 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 2005–2008).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2016
Most recently recorded at #3079 among boys in England and Wales, in 2016.
England and Wales · Boys

Brandan appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 557 births with the name.

Brandan across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Brandan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#704 (1996)	#422 (2000)	#3079 (2016)	21 of 21	557 (1996–2016)	51 (1999)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#317 (2001)	#317 (2001)	#518 (2005)	2 of 5	8 (2001–2005)	5 (2001)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#307 (2005)	#307 (2005)	#378 (2008)	2 of 4	6 (2005–2008)	3 (2005)

Brandan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Brandan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	151	4 of 10	38
2000sbusiest	355	10 of 10	36
2010s	51	7 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 36 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Brandan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #307 in Northern Ireland in 2005.

Brandan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1909	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1407	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1067	24	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1156	21	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1079	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#733	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#605	44	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#599	40	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#653	33	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#516	41	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#473	44	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#422	51	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#426	51	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#477	41	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#505	37	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#704	22	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#378	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#317	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2016, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #307, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 51 births, registered in England and Wales in 1999.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 9 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Bram · #715, 25y
Bramwell · #2483, 14y
Brandon · #27, 34y
Brandon-Lee · #229, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Amayah · #306, 20y
Cj · #306, 23y
Danielius · #308, 20y
Lilly-Rose · #306, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Chanel · #307, 29y
Lyall · #307, 20y
Munro · #307, 11y
Cj · #306, 23y

Brandan was ranked #307 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Brandan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Brandan without appearing here.

Brandan moved ahead of

Ashleigh Compare
In 1997 they stood at #505 and #471 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #477 and #669.

Moved ahead of Brandan

Andrea Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1909 and #2039 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3416 and #1756.
Henrik Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1909 and #2194 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3416 and #1962.
Gunnar Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3362 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #4747 and #3373.
Kristoffer Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1067 and #4527 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #4747 and #3373.

Moved the opposite way to Brandan

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Brandan went from #704 to #3079 while Albie went from #853 to #88.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Brandan went from #704 to #3079 while Alfie went from #119 to #14.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Brandan went from #704 to #3079 while Alfred went from #218 to #111.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Brandan went from #704 to #3079 while Archie went from #192 to #18.

Moved the same way as Brandan

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Brandan went from #704 to #3079 and Aaron from #33 to #95.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Brandan went from #704 to #3079 and Adam from #16 to #37.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Brandan went from #704 to #3079 and Alex from #43 to #84.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2016 in England and Wales · Boys, Brandan went from #704 to #3079 and Alexander from #14 to #21.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #307 in Northern Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Brandan

Brandan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Brandan across 3 official records

Brandan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Brandan across 3 official records

Brandan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Brandan and the names beside it

Brandan moved ahead of

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