How Many People Are Named Brendon?

19,334

people named Brendon are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 17,677 people in the US has this name

Based on 20,103 babies named Brendon in Social Security records from 1927 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,659

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#689

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Peak Year

1998

868 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: BREN-dən
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of BRENDAN.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Brendon in English. Counting Brendon and these spellings together, about 132,084 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.1%
Male
99.9%

Almost all of the babies given the name Brendon (99.9%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Brendon alive today is about 29 years old, and 57% are under 30. Half of them were between 21 and 35 in 2025.

Under 30 11,039
57.1%
30 to 59 8,137
42.1%
60 and over 159
0.8%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Brendon first appears in the records in 1927 and was given most often in 1998, to 868 babies. In 2025, 48 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1927 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Brendon has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #318, in 1998. In 2025 it ranked #2,683.

Boys
Rank in 2025#2,683
Best rank#318 (1998)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#367 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Brendon alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Brendon were born in California than in any other state: about 1,859 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Brendon was given 2.4 times as often in Massachusetts, 1.6 times in New Hampshire and 1.6 times in Utah.

California 1,859
New York 1,473
Texas 1,346
Pennsylvania 889
Michigan 866
Massachusetts 811
Illinois 764
Ohio 763
Florida 711
Missouri 465
Indiana 449
Georgia 402
Washington 364
New Jersey 361
Virginia 345
Maryland 340
Arizona 321
North Carolina 315
Colorado 311
Utah 293
Louisiana 287
Connecticut 255
Oklahoma 252
Kansas 194
Minnesota 189
Wisconsin 185
Oregon 184
Kentucky 168
South Carolina 151
Tennessee 147
Iowa 132
Alabama 109
Arkansas 92
New Hampshire 90
Mississippi 88
New Mexico 77
Nebraska 68
Rhode Island 64
Idaho 46
West Virginia 42
Nevada 40
Montana 27
Hawaii 21
Maine 19
Delaware 18
District of Columbia 15
Vermont 15
South Dakota 11
North Dakota 11
Wyoming 11
Alaska 10

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