Meaning not yet researched.
Braylon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 289 in 2025. Its best rank was #218 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #218 in 2009; #848 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Braylon in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#848 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #218.
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Braylon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 289 boys in 2025. Peak: #218 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 1,695 (2009).
In 2025, 289 US boys were named Braylon, making it the 848th most common boys’ name of the year, down 116 places from #732 in 2024. That is 70 fewer than the 359 boys named Braylon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #218, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,695. For comparison, it was #392 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Braylon in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 8 babies. In all, 18,959 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 9,366 babies named Braylon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,038 US boys were named Braylon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 738. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,910 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Braylon ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #228 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Braylen (14,058 babies since 1880), Braelyn (12,314 babies since 1880), Braylin (4,785 babies since 1880) and Braylynn (1,816 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Braelin, Braelon and Bralen are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Braelin (638), Braelon (500), Bralen (353), Brallan (343), Braelen (282), Brailen (194), Braylinn (144), Bralon (132), Bralin (110), Brailon (78), Braylenn (36), Braelan (32), and more.
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 Braylon 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 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 8 | #228 | #185 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #316 | #175 |
| Alabama | 15 | #362 | #121 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #427 | #126 |
| Tennessee | 16 | #480 | #195 |
| Georgia | 21 | #501 | #253 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #507 | #198 |
| Maryland | 9 | #526 | #366 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #529 | #230 |
| Ohio | 19 | #543 | #252 |
| Virginia | 13 | #565 | #334 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #597 | #272 |
| Michigan | 9 | #777 | #277 |
| Indiana | 7 | #782 | #358 |
| Missouri | 6 | #798 | #348 |
| Florida | 18 | #812 | #427 |
| Texas | 32 | #829 | #395 |
| Illinois | 8 | #945 | #489 |
| California | 10 | #1,609 | #992 |
| New York | 5 | #1,805 | #1,373 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,326 | 289 | #848 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,763 | 359 | #732 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,736 | 437 | #634 |
| 2022 | — | — | 491 | #583 |
| 2021 | — | — | 624 | #479 |
| 2020 | — | — | 526 | #537 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,546 | 446 | #613 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,948 | 499 | #554 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,090 | 629 | #474 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,972 | 738 | #425 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,688 | 813 | #392 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,137 | 833 | #378 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,184 | 1,049 | #317 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,827 | 1,253 | #278 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,274 | 1,532 | #234 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,473 | 1,473 | #237 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,940 | 1,695 | #218 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,800 | 1,388 | #254 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,169 | 818 | #376 |
| 2006 | — | — | 753 | #400 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,064 | 818 | #360 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,473 | 272 | #705 |
| 2003 | — | — | 156 | #1,013 |
| 2002 | — | — | 118 | #1,186 |
| 2001 | — | — | 83 | #1,472 |
| 2000 | — | — | 98 | #1,314 |
| 1999 | — | — | 79 | #1,458 |
| 1998 | — | — | 74 | #1,489 |
| 1997 | — | — | 66 | #1,551 |
| 1996 | — | — | 57 | #1,673 |
| 1995 | — | — | 51 | #1,737 |
| 1994 | — | — | 45 | #1,868 |
| 1993 | — | — | 39 | #2,053 |
| 1992 | — | — | 32 | #2,312 |
| 1991 | — | — | 44 | #1,800 |
| 1990 | — | — | 25 | #2,633 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,797 |
| 1988 | — | — | 23 | #2,522 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #3,998 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,017 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,207 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,435 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,566 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,715 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,561 |
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).