Meaning not yet researched.
Braxten: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,510 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,510 in 2013; #2,682 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Braxten in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,682 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,510.
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Braxten: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,510 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 108 (2017).
In 2025, 48 US boys were named Braxten, making it the 2,682nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 236 places from #2,918 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 43 boys named Braxten in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,510, reached in 2013. The most boys given the name in a single year was 108, in 2017. For comparison, it was #1,568 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braxten in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 5 babies. In all, 1,869 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 981 babies named Braxten.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 772 US boys were named Braxten; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,585 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Braxten ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,299 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Braxton (66,654 babies since 1880) and Braxtyn (2,446 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 Braxten 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,299 | #1,139 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 48 | #2,682 |
| 2024 | — | — | 43 | #2,918 |
| 2023 | — | — | 65 | #2,191 |
| 2022 | — | — | 50 | #2,651 |
| 2021 | — | — | 73 | #2,029 |
| 2020 | — | — | 89 | #1,732 |
| 2019 | — | — | 100 | #1,635 |
| 2018 | — | — | 99 | #1,640 |
| 2017 | — | — | 108 | #1,526 |
| 2016 | — | — | 97 | #1,643 |
| 2015 | — | — | 103 | #1,568 |
| 2014 | — | — | 90 | #1,691 |
| 2013 | — | — | 107 | #1,510 |
| 2012 | — | — | 96 | #1,618 |
| 2011 | — | — | 88 | #1,687 |
| 2010 | — | — | 93 | #1,666 |
| 2009 | — | — | 94 | #1,667 |
| 2008 | — | — | 63 | #2,143 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,077 | 64 | #2,119 |
| 2006 | — | — | 50 | #2,452 |
| 2005 | — | — | 40 | #2,712 |
| 2004 | — | — | 50 | #2,286 |
| 2003 | — | — | 25 | #3,544 |
| 2002 | — | — | 20 | #4,056 |
| 2001 | — | — | 18 | #4,320 |
| 2000 | — | — | 16 | #4,603 |
| 1999 | — | — | 16 | #4,369 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,223 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,695 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,567 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,544 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #8,950 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #8,861 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,572 |
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).