# Brendon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/brendon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 20,103 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 20,081 / 22 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 897, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 7 | 8,629 |
| 1988 | 10 | 7,184 |
| 1993 | 5 | 13,735 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 307 | 737 |
| 2012 | 281 | 801 |
| 2013 | 202 | 986 |
| 2014 | 181 | 1,071 |
| 2015 | 172 | 1,116 |
| 2016 | 124 | 1,414 |
| 2017 | 114 | 1,478 |
| 2018 | 138 | 1,320 |
| 2019 | 113 | 1,509 |
| 2020 | 68 | 2,072 |
| 2021 | 83 | 1,855 |
| 2022 | 52 | 2,591 |
| 2023 | 66 | 2,176 |
| 2024 | 52 | 2,567 |
| 2025 | 48 | 2,683 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 1,251 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,270 |
| 2013 | 20 | 1,247 |
| 2014 | 20 | 1,281 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2016 | 19 | 1,363 |
| 2017 | 16 | 1,546 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1,991 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2021 | 12 | 1,860 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2,921 |
| 2025 | 13 | 1,897 |

## People named Brendon

- Brendon Urie, American singer and musician
- Nicholas Brendon, American actor (1971–2026)
- Brendon Rodney, Canadian athletics competitor and sprinter
- Brendon Smith, Australian swimmer
- Brendon Small, American actor
- Brendon Miller, American pornographic actor and musician
- Brendon Julian, cricketer
- Brendon Reading, Australian athletics competitor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.