Brendon
Most Poles have never met one: only about 80 men carry it, and almost none are born now. Brendon comes from Celtic and means "prince" or "king".
Brendon Pronunciation
Brendon is pronounced BREN-don (/ˈbrɛndɔn/).
What Brendon means
Where Brendon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Brendon comes from Celtic roots, and its old sense points to a ruler: prince, king. The Welsh word "brenin" for a king stands behind it, and the older Irish form Bréanainn carried the same idea. Brendon is the English spelling that settled over centuries of use.
One bearer gave the name its fame. Saint Brendan the Navigator, an Irish monk of the sixth century, sailed the Atlantic in a hide boat according to the medieval tale Navigatio Sancti Brendani. That Latin story spread across Europe in copy after copy. The name traveled with it.
Brendon means king.
Today the name reads as English, worn by a boy whose meaning holds a prince. On a Polish class register it sits among Kacper and Filip, foreign in shape but plain enough to spell. The "-on" ending marks it as the English variant rather than the Irish Brendan.
How many people are named Brendon
1 in 266827 men in Poland is named Brendon. 80 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3960 among male names.
Brendon's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Brendon as a middle name
Brendon is a first name for 80 men in Poland and a middle name for another 21, a 79/21 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1914th, between Bikram (21) and Carmelo (21).
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#1912 Benny21
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#1913 Bikram21
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#1914 Brendon21
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#1915 Carmelo21
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#1916 Cesare21