Meaning not yet researched.
Braylan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,545 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,545 in 2011; #4,880 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Braylan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,880 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #1,545.
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Braylan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,545 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 102 (2011).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Braylan, making it the 4,880th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,071 places from #3,809 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 29 boys named Braylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,545, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 102. For comparison, it was #2,115 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braylan in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 1,393 US babies have been given the name, 4.4% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 678 babies named Braylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 353 US boys were named Braylan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Braylon (18,959 babies since 1880), Braylen (14,058 babies since 1880), Braelyn (12,314 babies since 1880) and Braylin (4,785 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Braylan 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 | — | — | 20 | #4,880 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,809 |
| 2023 | — | — | 23 | #4,474 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,892 | 33 | #3,472 |
| 2021 | — | — | 41 | #2,980 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,513 | 44 | #2,765 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,907 |
| 2018 | — | — | 40 | #2,954 |
| 2017 | — | — | 46 | #2,683 |
| 2016 | — | — | 50 | #2,522 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,817 | 66 | #2,115 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,997 | 78 | #1,874 |
| 2013 | — | — | 88 | #1,686 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,284 | 72 | #1,963 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,148 | 102 | #1,545 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,702 | 79 | #1,836 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,938 | 90 | #1,722 |
| 2008 | — | — | 97 | #1,614 |
| 2007 | — | — | 59 | #2,240 |
| 2006 | — | — | 55 | #2,289 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,230 | 49 | #2,370 |
| 2004 | — | — | 32 | #3,085 |
| 2003 | — | — | 17 | #4,636 |
| 2002 | — | — | 17 | #4,527 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,775 | 13 | #5,419 |
| 2000 | — | — | 13 | #5,324 |
| 1999 | — | — | 16 | #4,370 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #6,925 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,254 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,227 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #8,953 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #8,862 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,262 |
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).