Meaning not yet researched.
Braylen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 366 in 2025. Its best rank was #316 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #316 in 2011; #725 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Braylen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#725 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #316.
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Braylen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 366 boys in 2025. Peak: #316 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 1,011 (2011).
In 2025, 366 US boys were named Braylen, making it the 725th most common boys’ name of the year, down 60 places from #665 in 2024. That is 46 fewer than the 412 boys named Braylen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #316, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,011. For comparison, it was #414 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braylen in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 5 babies. In all, 14,058 US babies have been given the name, 5.7% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,168 babies named Braylen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,673 US boys were named Braylen; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 719. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,667 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Braylen ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #242 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Braylon (18,959 babies since 1880), Braelyn (12,314 babies since 1880), Braylin (4,785 babies since 1880) and Braylynn (1,816 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 Braylen 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 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 13 | #242 | #117 |
| Alabama | 20 | #274 | #133 |
| Louisiana | 15 | #340 | #218 |
| Maryland | 15 | #345 | #277 |
| Georgia | 31 | #376 | #181 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #388 | #148 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #448 | #182 |
| Ohio | 23 | #458 | #259 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #556 | #218 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #562 | #340 |
| Illinois | 14 | #642 | #674 |
| Florida | 25 | #652 | #458 |
| Indiana | 9 | #672 | #437 |
| Virginia | 10 | #677 | #333 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #693 | #423 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #722 | #272 |
| Michigan | 9 | #776 | #271 |
| Texas | 34 | #793 | #481 |
| Missouri | 5 | #878 | #374 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,017 | #809 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,050 | — |
| California | 16 | #1,206 | #1,166 |
| New York | 9 | #1,219 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,572 | 366 | #725 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,828 | 412 | #665 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,774 | 509 | #575 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,777 | 543 | #545 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,683 | 646 | #463 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,565 | 582 | #501 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,673 | 571 | #500 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,473 | 622 | #466 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,440 | 719 | #430 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,937 | 703 | #438 |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,608 | 753 | #414 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,788 | 759 | #407 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,522 | 871 | #361 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,795 | 965 | #327 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,615 | 1,011 | #316 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,698 | 798 | #368 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,686 | 714 | #412 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,781 | 449 | #573 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,864 | 337 | #696 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,576 | 276 | #763 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,576 | 222 | #834 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,536 | 107 | #1,359 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,787 | 54 | #2,082 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,369 | 56 | #1,974 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,165 | 38 | #2,524 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,975 | 41 | #2,337 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,554 | 31 | #2,728 |
| 1998 | — | — | 17 | #4,038 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,080 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,413 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,079 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,714 | 14 | #4,321 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #5,815 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,195 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,352 |
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).