Meaning not yet researched.
Braden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 183 in 2025. Its best rank was #133 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #133 in 2005; #1,152 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Braden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,152 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #133.
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Braden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 183 boys in 2025. Peak: #133 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 3,046 (2005).
In 2025, 183 US boys were named Braden, making it the 1,152nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 92 places from #1,244 in 2024. That is 24 more than the 159 boys named Braden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #133, reached in 2005. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,046. For comparison, it was #411 in 2015 and #2,221 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braden in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 6 babies. In all, 46,512 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 24,209 babies named Braden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,296 US boys were named Braden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 599. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,334 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Braden ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #720 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Braeden (13,872 babies since 1880), Brayden (137,606 babies since 1880), Braydon (14,338 babies since 1880) and Braiden (7,789 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bradynn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bradynn (20).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Braden in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 7 | #720 | #442 |
| Maryland | 6 | #720 | #345 |
| Virginia | 9 | #741 | #260 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #748 | #380 |
| Michigan | 9 | #775 | #406 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #780 | #589 |
| Ohio | 10 | #809 | #355 |
| Georgia | 10 | #858 | #574 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #941 | #345 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #950 | #628 |
| Indiana | 5 | #961 | #424 |
| California | 15 | #1,254 | #556 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,369 | #406 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,422 | #456 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 183 | #1,152 |
| 2024 | — | — | 159 | #1,244 |
| 2023 | — | — | 187 | #1,129 |
| 2022 | — | — | 245 | #935 |
| 2021 | — | — | 255 | #903 |
| 2020 | — | — | 287 | #809 |
| 2019 | — | — | 388 | #671 |
| 2018 | — | — | 480 | #576 |
| 2017 | — | — | 513 | #546 |
| 2016 | — | — | 599 | #501 |
| 2015 | — | — | 758 | #411 |
| 2014 | — | — | 894 | #357 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,981 | 965 | #335 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,733 | 1,135 | #303 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,342 | #259 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,710 | #207 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,749 | 2,034 | #185 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,082 | 2,524 | #156 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,804 | 2,689 | #156 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,200 | 2,857 | #143 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,984 | 3,046 | #133 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,596 | 2,621 | #154 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,786 | 2,353 | #170 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,924 | 2,291 | #168 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,799 | 1,923 | #191 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,170 | 1,733 | #204 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,462 | 1,643 | #208 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,163 | 1,190 | #251 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,340 | 1,050 | #267 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,688 | 1,004 | #278 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,249 | 817 | #322 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,727 | 721 | #341 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,561 | 585 | #396 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,545 | 544 | #412 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,434 | 439 | #472 |
| 1990 | — | — | 396 | #486 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,007 | 342 | #518 |
| 1988 | — | — | 286 | #544 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,079 | 286 | #536 |
| 1986 | — | — | 300 | #506 |
| 1985 | — | — | 276 | #525 |
| 1984 | — | — | 192 | #614 |
| 1983 | — | — | 160 | #675 |
| 1982 | — | — | 196 | #620 |
| 1981 | — | — | 158 | #687 |
| 1980 | — | — | 147 | #721 |
| 1979 | — | — | 118 | #799 |
| 1978 | — | — | 108 | #820 |
| 1977 | — | — | 117 | #792 |
| 1976 | — | — | 86 | #894 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,086 | 85 | #895 |
| 1974 | — | — | 68 | #994 |
| 1973 | — | — | 61 | #1,037 |
| 1972 | — | — | 45 | #1,231 |
| 1971 | — | — | 59 | #1,057 |
| 1970 | — | — | 67 | #991 |
| 1969 | — | — | 33 | #1,397 |
| 1968 | — | — | 31 | #1,394 |
| 1967 | — | — | 34 | #1,290 |
| 1966 | — | — | 39 | #1,201 |
| 1965 | — | — | 40 | #1,209 |
| 1964 | — | — | 25 | #1,584 |
| 1963 | — | — | 23 | #1,663 |
| 1962 | — | — | 16 | #2,042 |
| 1961 | — | — | 19 | #1,884 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,549 |
| 1959 | — | — | 15 | #2,125 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,184 |
| 1957 | — | — | 16 | #2,029 |
| 1956 | — | — | 23 | #1,644 |
| 1955 | — | — | 22 | #1,651 |
| 1954 | — | — | 15 | #2,053 |
| 1953 | — | — | 19 | #1,770 |
| 1952 | — | — | 13 | #2,162 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,093 |
| 1950 | — | — | 12 | #2,221 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,055 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,032 |
| 1947 | — | — | 15 | #2,000 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,719 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #2,891 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,543 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,891 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,728 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,823 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,223 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,532 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,513 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,552 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).