Meaning not yet researched.
Braiden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #468 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #468 in 2010; #2,842 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Braiden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,842 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #468.
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Braiden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 boys in 2025. Peak: #468 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 563 (2009).
In 2025, 44 US boys were named Braiden, making it the 2,842nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 447 places from #2,395 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 58 boys named Braiden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #468, reached in 2010. The most boys given the name in a single year was 563, in 2009. For comparison, it was #902 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braiden in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 6 babies. In all, 7,789 US babies have been given the name, 2.0% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,589 babies named Braiden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,184 US boys were named Braiden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 243. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,820 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Braiden ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,658 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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.
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 Braiden 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,658 | #1,288 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 44 | #2,842 |
| 2024 | — | — | 58 | #2,395 |
| 2023 | — | — | 64 | #2,225 |
| 2022 | — | — | 82 | #1,910 |
| 2021 | — | — | 103 | #1,633 |
| 2020 | — | — | 132 | #1,347 |
| 2019 | — | — | 113 | #1,508 |
| 2018 | — | — | 151 | #1,228 |
| 2017 | — | — | 194 | #1,037 |
| 2016 | — | — | 243 | #894 |
| 2015 | — | — | 241 | #902 |
| 2014 | — | — | 277 | #821 |
| 2013 | — | — | 298 | #760 |
| 2012 | — | — | 421 | #601 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,145 | 468 | #545 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,558 | 557 | #468 |
| 2009 | — | — | 563 | #484 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,751 | 555 | #493 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,863 | 482 | #533 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,606 | 403 | #603 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,985 | 391 | #582 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,328 | 305 | #669 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,125 | 234 | #758 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,295 | 230 | #754 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,372 | 192 | #843 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,399 | 150 | #986 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,311 | 147 | #975 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,259 | 89 | #1,338 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,284 | 78 | #1,402 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,233 | 82 | #1,321 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,695 | 59 | #1,577 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,712 | 47 | #1,827 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,718 | 52 | #1,681 |
| 1992 | — | — | 38 | #2,050 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,837 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,622 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,040 |
| 1988 | — | — | 16 | #3,221 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,182 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,503 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,635 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,649 |
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).