Meaning not yet researched.
Braven: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,566 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,566 in 2018; #2,999 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Braven in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,999 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,566.
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Braven: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,566 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 107 (2018).
In 2025, 41 US boys were named Braven, making it the 2,999th most common boys’ name of the year, down 683 places from #2,316 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 61 boys named Braven in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,566, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 107. For comparison, it was #2,462 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braven in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 5 babies. In all, 1,084 US babies have been given the name, 2.9% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 493 babies named Braven.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 692 US boys were named Braven; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 107. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Brayven, Bravin and Bravyn 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brayven (61), Bravin (23), Bravyn (10), Bravon (5).
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 Braven 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 | — | — | 41 | #2,999 |
| 2024 | — | — | 61 | #2,316 |
| 2023 | — | — | 60 | #2,321 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,888 | 66 | #2,193 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,776 | 94 | #1,726 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,265 | 79 | #1,877 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,225 | 92 | #1,715 |
| 2018 | — | — | 107 | #1,566 |
| 2017 | — | — | 40 | #2,961 |
| 2016 | — | — | 52 | #2,439 |
| 2015 | — | — | 51 | #2,462 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,703 |
| 2013 | — | — | 34 | #3,194 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,542 |
| 2011 | — | — | 26 | #3,898 |
| 2010 | — | — | 22 | #4,378 |
| 2009 | — | — | 20 | #4,770 |
| 2008 | — | — | 20 | #4,735 |
| 2007 | — | — | 20 | #4,658 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,143 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #9,248 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,037 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,845 |
| 2002 | — | — | 13 | #5,433 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,616 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,811 |
| 1999 | — | — | 9 | #6,598 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #6,924 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,250 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #8,949 |
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).