Meaning not yet researched.
Brayson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 57 in 2025. Its best rank was #955 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #955 in 2017; #2,397 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brayson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,397 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #955.
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Brayson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 57 boys in 2025. Peak: #955 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 218 (2017).
In 2025, 57 US boys were named Brayson, making it the 2,397th most common boys’ name of the year, down 601 places from #1,796 in 2024. That is 34 fewer than the 91 boys named Brayson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #955, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 218. For comparison, it was #1,058 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brayson in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 9 babies. In all, 3,161 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,897 babies named Brayson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,457 US boys were named Brayson; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 218. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,966 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brayson ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #676 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Braysen, Braycen and Braeson are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Braysen (625), Braycen (353), Braeson (217), Brasen (209), Brason (149), Brayzen (59), Braesyn (33), Braisen (11), Braesen (5), Brassen (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 Brayson 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 6 | #676 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,806 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,632 | #1,041 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 57 | #2,397 |
| 2024 | — | — | 91 | #1,796 |
| 2023 | — | — | 76 | #2,002 |
| 2022 | — | — | 116 | #1,541 |
| 2021 | — | — | 148 | #1,280 |
| 2020 | — | — | 155 | #1,216 |
| 2019 | — | — | 191 | #1,067 |
| 2018 | — | — | 191 | #1,060 |
| 2017 | — | — | 218 | #955 |
| 2016 | — | — | 214 | #963 |
| 2015 | — | — | 188 | #1,058 |
| 2014 | — | — | 213 | #981 |
| 2013 | — | — | 174 | #1,077 |
| 2012 | — | — | 181 | #1,053 |
| 2011 | — | — | 175 | #1,071 |
| 2010 | — | — | 152 | #1,183 |
| 2009 | — | — | 111 | #1,498 |
| 2008 | — | — | 89 | #1,711 |
| 2007 | — | — | 72 | #1,956 |
| 2006 | — | — | 70 | #1,921 |
| 2005 | — | — | 74 | #1,775 |
| 2004 | — | — | 43 | #2,533 |
| 2003 | — | — | 32 | #2,998 |
| 2002 | — | — | 29 | #3,109 |
| 2001 | — | — | 19 | #4,143 |
| 2000 | — | — | 19 | #4,075 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #4,792 |
| 1998 | — | — | 11 | #5,511 |
| 1997 | — | — | 17 | #3,900 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,072 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #7,920 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #5,918 |
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).