Meaning not yet researched.
Brayden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,545 in 2025. Its best rank was #36 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #36 in 2011; #229 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brayden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#229 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #36.
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Brayden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,545 boys in 2025. Peak: #36 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 9,122 (2010).
In 2025, 1,545 US boys were named Brayden, making it the 229th most common boys’ name of the year, down 39 places from #190 in 2024. That is 378 fewer than the 1,923 boys named Brayden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #36, reached in 2011. The most boys given the name in a single year was 9,122, in 2010. For comparison, it was #61 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brayden in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 137,606 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 66,270 babies named Brayden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 33,511 US boys were named Brayden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 5,734. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,106 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brayden ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #106 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Braden (46,512 babies since 1880), Braydon (14,338 babies since 1880), Braeden (13,872 babies since 1880) and Braiden (7,789 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Braidyn, Braydyn and Braidon 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: Braidyn (677), Braydyn (522), Braidon (459), Bradan (441), Bradin (412), Braedin (143), Braidan (137), Bradden (106), Braydenn (49), Bradyen (7).
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 Brayden 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 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 9 | #106 | #53 |
| Massachusetts | 54 | #130 | #52 |
| Mississippi | 22 | #144 | #36 |
| West Virginia | 13 | #147 | #31 |
| South Carolina | 38 | #152 | #42 |
| Alabama | 36 | #158 | #30 |
| Connecticut | 21 | #166 | #82 |
| Virginia | 52 | #174 | #58 |
| New York | 110 | #176 | #76 |
| Louisiana | 29 | #177 | #29 |
| Maine | 7 | #178 | #41 |
| North Carolina | 70 | #180 | #45 |
| Florida | 119 | #186 | #67 |
| New Jersey | 53 | #187 | #68 |
| Michigan | 53 | #195 | #46 |
| Pennsylvania | 63 | #201 | #43 |
| Delaware | 5 | #209 | #51 |
| Maryland | 28 | #210 | #46 |
| Missouri | 33 | #214 | #57 |
| Georgia | 56 | #218 | #50 |
| Tennessee | 40 | #222 | #53 |
| Wisconsin | 27 | #224 | #59 |
| Montana | 5 | #234 | #96 |
| New Mexico | 8 | #239 | #76 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #239 | #45 |
| Kentucky | 22 | #245 | #29 |
| Illinois | 46 | #248 | #73 |
| California | 140 | #263 | #111 |
| Nevada | 11 | #272 | #90 |
| Minnesota | 22 | #278 | #72 |
| Ohio | 42 | #288 | #41 |
| Arizona | 26 | #297 | #76 |
| Idaho | 8 | #303 | #78 |
| Texas | 124 | #306 | #84 |
| Iowa | 12 | #314 | #77 |
| Indiana | 24 | #318 | #41 |
| Washington | 22 | #338 | #66 |
| Colorado | 18 | #346 | #96 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #355 | #74 |
| Oregon | 11 | #356 | #83 |
| Utah | 13 | #356 | #163 |
| Kansas | 9 | #391 | #44 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #494 | #55 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,545 | #229 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,042 | 1,923 | #190 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,462 | 2,285 | #160 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,534 | 2,591 | #149 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,701 | 2,849 | #131 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,400 | 3,294 | #111 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,810 | 3,690 | #101 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,700 | 4,422 | #84 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,517 | 5,178 | #72 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,221 | 5,734 | #64 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,687 | 6,282 | #61 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,498 | 6,596 | #62 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,861 | 7,455 | #48 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,283 | 8,513 | #39 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,673 | 9,025 | #36 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,475 | 9,122 | #40 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,052 | 8,603 | #48 |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,000 | 8,445 | #51 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,717 | 7,226 | #64 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,855 | 6,160 | #79 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,835 | 5,512 | #80 |
| 2004 | 79 | #2,231 | 4,066 | #107 |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,613 | 3,672 | #110 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,789 | 2,809 | #138 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,710 | 2,129 | #176 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,950 | 1,760 | #199 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,193 | 1,523 | #222 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,662 | 1,015 | #284 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,526 | 724 | #351 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,323 | 604 | #390 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,695 | 450 | #480 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,751 | 310 | #586 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,665 | 250 | #651 |
| 1992 | — | — | 173 | #795 |
| 1991 | — | — | 142 | #885 |
| 1990 | — | — | 103 | #1,042 |
| 1989 | — | — | 82 | #1,173 |
| 1988 | — | — | 61 | #1,320 |
| 1987 | — | — | 39 | #1,711 |
| 1986 | — | — | 43 | #1,539 |
| 1985 | — | — | 29 | #1,976 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #2,976 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,428 |
| 1982 | — | — | 16 | #2,851 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,560 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,279 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,110 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,423 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,642 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,748 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #3,988 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,288 |
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).