Boy
Branden
Branden means "Old English, broom-covered hill or gorse hill" and comes from Old English, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It is not as common as it was in the 1990s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 7 of them.
EtymologyVariant of Brandon
Old EnglishOld English – "broom-covered hill" or "gorse hill"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
5
1960s
153
1970s
1,821
1980s
7,616
1990s
9,726
2000s
6,197
2010s
1,825
Peaked in the 1990s · 27,343 total U.S. births since 1900