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Brandyn

Gender
Boy
Say it
BRAN-din
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#7,190 for boys

Brandyn is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “hill covered in broom”. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).

What does Brandyn mean?

English: spelling of Brandon

“hill covered in broom”

A spelling of Brandon, from English places such as Brandon in Suffolk, named for a hill covered in broom.

Is Brandyn a girl's or a boy's name?

Brandyn is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Brandyn in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 17 boys.

Half of all the boys named Brandyn in the UK since 1996 were born between 2001 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

1996Busiest: 17 in 20072019
Brandyn in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20191#6,258
20180–
20171#6,312
20161#6,416
20151#6,220
20140–
20134#4,008
20126#3,167
20112#6,146
20106#3,092
20097#2,679
200810#2,048
200717#1,399
20066#2,645
20053#3,992
200411#1,583
200313#1,328
200213#1,252
200111#1,369
200012#1,235
19999#1,451
19982#3,848
19974#2,438
19962#3,734

How popular is Brandyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,190among boys
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 160,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 51% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 11 boys in the US were named Brandyn, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,447th. Its busiest year was 1992, with 259 boys. It first appears in the records in 1968.

Half of all the boys named Brandyn in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2003, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,387 boys in the US were given Brandyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #270, up from #7,190 for this spelling alone.

In 1974, 76% of the babies named Brandyn in the US were girls. By 2017 it was 13%, with more boys than girls since 1980.

1968Busiest: 259 in 19922025
Brandyn in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202511#7,190
20249#8,307
202314#6,215
202218#5,211
202122#4,490
202016#5,447
201926#4,000
201828#3,789
201742#2,839
201629#3,680
201544#2,721
201456#2,315
201348#2,526
201251#2,447
201161#2,144
201083#1,777
200990#1,716
200894#1,639
200798#1,593
2006109#1,427
200597#1,484
200499#1,423
2003127#1,172
2002112#1,220
2001143#1,026
2000154#971
1999182#829
1998193#789
1997175#826
1996195#755
1995216#724
1994232#680
1993231#674
1992259#638
1991207#699
1990158#805
1989165#769
1988151#766
1987124#835
1986136#777
1985106#882
198444#1,443
198345#1,398
198248#1,361
198139#1,547
198028#1,965
197921#2,309
197818#2,472
197729#1,780
197618#2,416
197511#3,244
197415#2,547
197311#3,011
19725#4,983
19718#3,656
19706#4,228
19690–
19687#3,364

Names like Brandyn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Brandyn

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Brandyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/brandyn, updated 20 October 2026.