Meaning not yet researched.
Braeden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #322 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #322 in 2005; #3,319 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Braeden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,319 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #322.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Braeden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #322 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 1,004 (2005).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Braeden, making it the 3,319th most common boys’ name of the year, down 925 places from #2,394 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 58 boys named Braeden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #322, reached in 2005. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,004. For comparison, it was #798 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braeden in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 13,872 US babies have been given the name, 1.7% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,549 babies named Braeden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 976 US boys were named Braeden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 205. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Braden (46,512 babies since 1880), Brayden (137,606 babies since 1880), Braydon (14,338 babies since 1880) and Braiden (7,789 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Braeden in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 35 | #3,319 |
| 2024 | — | — | 58 | #2,394 |
| 2023 | — | — | 47 | #2,741 |
| 2022 | — | — | 72 | #2,083 |
| 2021 | — | — | 89 | #1,786 |
| 2020 | — | — | 83 | #1,798 |
| 2019 | — | — | 114 | #1,495 |
| 2018 | — | — | 123 | #1,421 |
| 2017 | — | — | 150 | #1,221 |
| 2016 | — | — | 205 | #994 |
| 2015 | — | — | 293 | #798 |
| 2014 | — | — | 289 | #793 |
| 2013 | — | — | 330 | #714 |
| 2012 | — | — | 446 | #577 |
| 2011 | — | — | 561 | #476 |
| 2010 | — | — | 689 | #409 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,935 | 816 | #373 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,927 | 948 | #345 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,947 | 979 | #325 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,807 | 966 | #333 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,466 | 1,004 | #322 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,236 | 941 | #324 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,650 | 876 | #330 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,702 | 741 | #360 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,272 | 605 | #415 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,647 | 527 | #452 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,791 | 406 | #523 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,112 | 280 | #636 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,341 | 227 | #701 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,032 | 173 | #828 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,580 | 110 | #1,071 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,202 | 108 | #1,075 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,960 | 87 | #1,206 |
| 1992 | — | — | 57 | #1,547 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,407 | 46 | #1,747 |
| 1990 | — | — | 31 | #2,262 |
| 1989 | — | — | 26 | #2,482 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,522 | 15 | #3,372 |
| 1987 | — | — | 23 | #2,404 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,163 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,368 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,731 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #4,982 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,475 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,572 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,545 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,155 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,184 |
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).