Meaning not yet researched.
Braedyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,060 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,060 in 2010; #5,423 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Braedyn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,423 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,060.
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Braedyn: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,060 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 181 (2010).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Braedyn, making it the 5,423rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 155 places from #5,268 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 18 boys named Braedyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,060, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 181. For comparison, it was #1,790 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Braedyn in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #5,738, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 24. For comparison, it was #11,041 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braedyn in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 7 babies. In all, 2,590 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,183 babies named Braedyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 401 US boys were named Braedyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 77. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brayden (137,606 babies since 1880), Braden (46,512 babies since 1880), Braydon (14,338 babies since 1880) and Braeden (13,872 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Braedyn 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 | — | — | 17 | #5,423 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,681 | 18 | #5,268 |
| 2023 | — | — | 15 | #5,968 |
| 2022 | — | — | 30 | #3,701 |
| 2021 | — | — | 27 | #3,928 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,745 | 37 | #3,080 |
| 2019 | — | — | 50 | #2,589 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,710 | 54 | #2,421 |
| 2017 | — | — | 77 | #1,884 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,987 | 76 | #1,923 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,041 | 84 | #1,790 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,305 | 119 | #1,414 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,664 | 118 | #1,414 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,568 | 149 | #1,202 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,604 | 160 | #1,132 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,953 | 181 | #1,060 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,088 | 175 | #1,064 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,594 | 178 | #1,061 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,738 | 150 | #1,178 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,401 | 136 | #1,229 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,199 | 117 | #1,302 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,457 | 81 | #1,607 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,108 | 64 | #1,847 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,748 | 54 | #2,022 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,800 | 28 | #3,151 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,225 | 32 | #2,808 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,553 | 30 | #2,800 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,081 | 15 | #4,437 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,145 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,165 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #7,913 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #6,742 |
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).