Meaning not yet researched.
Brayan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 334 in 2025. Its best rank was #294 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #294 in 2006; #768 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brayan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#768 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #294.
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Brayan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 334 boys in 2025. Peak: #294 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 1,151 (2006).
In 2025, 334 US boys were named Brayan, making it the 768th most common boys’ name of the year, down 50 places from #718 in 2024. That is 35 fewer than the 369 boys named Brayan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #294, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,151. For comparison, it was #596 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brayan in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 16,558 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,567 babies named Brayan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,130 US boys were named Brayan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 415. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,114 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brayan ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #401 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Brian (1,178,298 babies since 1880) and Brain (4,606 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Braun, Brayon and Brayn 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Braun (381), Brayon (279), Brayn (193), Brayen (137), Brann (22), Brahin (10), Brayhan (10), Brahian (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 Brayan 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 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 13 | #401 | #522 |
| Maryland | 9 | #525 | #535 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #531 | #539 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #561 | — |
| California | 50 | #592 | #382 |
| Arizona | 11 | #597 | #566 |
| Georgia | 16 | #628 | #517 |
| Texas | 47 | #639 | #447 |
| Washington | 10 | #645 | #571 |
| Florida | 25 | #651 | #603 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #666 | #398 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #675 | #668 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #677 | #523 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #705 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #742 | #518 |
| Colorado | 6 | #771 | #698 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #787 | #492 |
| Ohio | 9 | #865 | #1,227 |
| Illinois | 9 | #877 | #645 |
| New York | 13 | #958 | #440 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,262 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 334 | #768 |
| 2024 | — | — | 369 | #718 |
| 2023 | — | — | 284 | #852 |
| 2022 | — | — | 323 | #783 |
| 2021 | — | — | 252 | #910 |
| 2020 | — | — | 265 | #858 |
| 2019 | — | — | 270 | #835 |
| 2018 | — | — | 271 | #824 |
| 2017 | — | — | 347 | #705 |
| 2016 | — | — | 415 | #641 |
| 2015 | — | — | 462 | #596 |
| 2014 | — | — | 498 | #552 |
| 2013 | — | — | 525 | #510 |
| 2012 | — | — | 531 | #501 |
| 2011 | — | — | 638 | #428 |
| 2010 | — | — | 788 | #370 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,758 | 887 | #352 |
| 2008 | — | — | 993 | #331 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,166 | 1,061 | #310 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,151 | #294 |
| 2005 | — | — | 978 | #326 |
| 2004 | — | — | 891 | #336 |
| 2003 | — | — | 806 | #347 |
| 2002 | — | — | 761 | #355 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,773 | 541 | #448 |
| 2000 | — | — | 480 | #486 |
| 1999 | — | — | 290 | #624 |
| 1998 | — | — | 244 | #688 |
| 1997 | — | — | 183 | #800 |
| 1996 | — | — | 166 | #844 |
| 1995 | — | — | 112 | #1,063 |
| 1994 | — | — | 87 | #1,244 |
| 1993 | — | — | 62 | #1,495 |
| 1992 | — | — | 59 | #1,510 |
| 1991 | — | — | 68 | #1,368 |
| 1990 | — | — | 51 | #1,618 |
| 1989 | — | — | 26 | #2,483 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,773 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,280 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,404 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,426 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,249 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #4,987 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,158 |
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).