Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Brandel**

#17,704 most common boys' name of all time · #46,249 across all names · 74% male / 26% female · used 1981–2017 · genuinely unisex

Rank among boys
#17,704
Rank overall
#46,249 of 105,966
First appeared
1981
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
70
Since 2016
5
Peak year
1988 #5,654
Best rank
#5,654 1988
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
2000

Brandel first appears in 1981. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2017 5 — 5 —
2011 — 5 5 #12,884
2005 8 — 8 —
2001 — 7 7 #8,713
2000 — 5 5 #10,967
1994 — 5 5 #9,469
1991 — 6 6 #7,842
1990 — 5 5 #8,924
1989 — 6 6 #7,612
1988 — 8 8 #5,654
1982 — 5 5 #7,174
1981 5 — 5 —