Meaning not yet researched.
Brayton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,278 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,278 in 1996; #3,964 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brayton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,964 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,278.
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Brayton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,278 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 106 (2012).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Brayton, making it the 3,964th most common boys’ name of the year, up 374 places from #4,338 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 24 boys named Brayton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,278, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 106, in 2012. For comparison, it was #1,830 in 2015 and #3,363 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brayton in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 2,528 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 823 babies named Brayton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 453 US boys were named Brayton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Brayten and Braeton 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brayten (185), Braeton (65).
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 Brayton 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 | — | — | 27 | #3,964 |
| 2024 | — | — | 24 | #4,338 |
| 2023 | — | — | 26 | #4,127 |
| 2022 | — | — | 54 | #2,523 |
| 2021 | — | — | 47 | #2,698 |
| 2020 | — | — | 51 | #2,513 |
| 2019 | — | — | 53 | #2,492 |
| 2018 | — | — | 51 | #2,511 |
| 2017 | — | — | 53 | #2,423 |
| 2016 | — | — | 67 | #2,090 |
| 2015 | — | — | 81 | #1,830 |
| 2014 | — | — | 100 | #1,576 |
| 2013 | — | — | 84 | #1,737 |
| 2012 | — | — | 106 | #1,515 |
| 2011 | — | — | 86 | #1,722 |
| 2010 | — | — | 92 | #1,677 |
| 2009 | — | — | 85 | #1,776 |
| 2008 | — | — | 77 | #1,876 |
| 2007 | — | — | 84 | #1,761 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,447 | 70 | #1,922 |
| 2005 | — | — | 93 | #1,526 |
| 2004 | — | — | 73 | #1,734 |
| 2003 | — | — | 84 | #1,529 |
| 2002 | — | — | 81 | #1,530 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,721 | 77 | #1,565 |
| 2000 | — | — | 88 | #1,409 |
| 1999 | — | — | 75 | #1,506 |
| 1998 | — | — | 70 | #1,537 |
| 1997 | — | — | 87 | #1,310 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,036 | 86 | #1,278 |
| 1995 | — | — | 52 | #1,707 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,715 | 44 | #1,897 |
| 1993 | — | — | 35 | #2,217 |
| 1992 | — | — | 23 | #2,915 |
| 1991 | — | — | 21 | #3,002 |
| 1990 | — | — | 20 | #3,066 |
| 1989 | — | — | 18 | #3,216 |
| 1988 | — | — | 15 | #3,373 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,547 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,464 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,083 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,606 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,253 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #3,994 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,048 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,903 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,557 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,197 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,387 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,363 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,487 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,318 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,010 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,226 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,250 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #3,971 |
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).