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Brandon

Meaning — From the Old English Brūndūn or the Old Irish Breandán, both associated with place names meaning "hill covered with broom" (from Old English brom, "broom plant," and dun, "hill"). The Irish form Breandán was borne by Saint Brendan the Navigator, the 6th-century monk famous for his legendary Atlantic voyage. Brandon also developed as an English surname before becoming a given name in the 19th century.·Old English origin·Male·BRAN-dun

Brandon Brandon carries a solid, middle-American everyman quality — it is a name for dependable protagonists who are athletic without being flashy, loyal without being passive, and capable of surprising growth when the story demands it. Its peak popularity in the 1980s–1990s gives it a specific generational flavour that contemporary writers can deploy nostalgically or subvert.

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Contemporary FictionAdventureYoung AdultSouthern Fiction

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