Branch
About 1,063 American babies have been named Branch since 1889, most of them around 2018. In 2025 it ranked 3,450th. About 910 Branches are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Branch
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,063
- Estimated living today
- 910
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 1,707th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,450th
- First recorded
- 1889
How old the living Branches are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,063 babies given the name since 1889, about 910 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 750 of them are children and 40 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Branchs
- James Branch Cabell (1879–1958)American author
- Branch Rickey (1881–1965)American baseball player, manager, and executive
- William Branch Giles (1762–1830)American politician
People named Branch with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Branch is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Branch is most concentrated in Georgia (6.4×), Texas (5.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular boys’ names the year Branch peaked:
Related names
Branch against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.