Branden is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Branden is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1225 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,224 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 25,109 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Branden. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Branden is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Branden - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 243 in 1987. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Branden really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Branden was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
46 babies were named Branden in 2022 - that's 1 in 3,509,261 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Branden ranked 2,462 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The name Branden may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Branden is apparently especially popular in Hawaii. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 2,539 men in Hawaii is called Branden. In total, that’s 214 people who feel addressed when the name Branden is shouted loudly across Hawaii and who ensure that their name makes it to #372 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Branden as the answer a total of 25,109 times. This places Branden at #623 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Branden as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Branden has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Branden and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Branden, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Branden
Branden
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
N
D
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N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
R
A
N
D
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Branden sounds like this:
