Name meaning and origin
Brandon
Old English: Hill covered with broom
Pronounced BRAN-dən
Where the name comes from
- Old EnglishHill covered with broomOld English brōm "broom (plant)" + dūn "hill"A given name taken from an English surname, itself from a place name (Hanks & Hodges, A Dictionary of Surnames, Oxford 1998, p. 72). Its American rise is usually credited to television: Brandon Cruz (1969) and Brandon Walsh (1990).
Brandon across traditions
- United States. SSA #11 boys’ name of the 1990s (259,420 births). It was in New Mexico’s boys’ top 10 in 1993 and 1994, and 949 New Mexico boys were given the name in 2000–2009.
Forms in other languages
Brendon, Brandan
Brandon in letter-number systems
Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.
377
Hebrew Standard
8
Hebrew Ordinal
68
English Simple
408
English Sumerian
121
English Reverse
277
Greek Isopsephy
8
Chaldean
5
Pythagorean
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