Brayden
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #8,946 · #229 for boys in 2025, 1,545 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 9,025 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 14 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 136,548since 1970
Brayden over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #229 | 1,545 | |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #190 | 1,923 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #160 | 2,285 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #149 | 2,591 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | #131 | 2,849 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #111 | 3,294 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | #101 | 3,690 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #84 | 4,422 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #72 | 5,178 |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 | #64 | 5,734 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | #61 | 6,282 |
| 2014 | #5,456 | 24 | #62 | 6,596 |
| 2013 | #3,849 | 39 | #48 | 7,455 |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 | #39 | 8,513 |
| 2011 | #3,659 | 42 | #36 | 9,025 |
| 2010 | #3,470 | 46 | #40 | 9,122 |
| 2009 | #3,047 | 56 | #48 | 8,603 |
| 2008 | #2,995 | 58 | #51 | 8,445 |
| 2007 | #2,710 | 67 | #64 | 7,226 |
| 2006 | #2,850 | 61 | #79 | 6,160 |
| 2005 | #2,827 | 58 | #80 | 5,512 |
| 2004 | #2,229 | 79 | #107 | 4,066 |
| 2003 | #2,610 | 61 | #110 | 3,672 |
| 2002 | #2,780 | 54 | #138 | 2,809 |
| 2001 | #2,700 | 55 | #176 | 2,129 |
| 2000 | #2,940 | 48 | #199 | 1,760 |
| 1999 | #3,188 | 40 | #222 | 1,523 |
| 1998 | #3,648 | 32 | #284 | 1,015 |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 | #351 | 724 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 | #390 | 604 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 | #480 | 450 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | #586 | 310 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #651 | 250 |
| 1992 | — | #795 | 173 | |
| 1991 | — | #885 | 142 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,042 | 103 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,173 | 82 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,319 | 61 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,709 | 39 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,535 | 43 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,975 | 29 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,956 | 15 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,411 | 12 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,831 | 16 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,256 | 13 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,400 | 11 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,582 | 7 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brayden! It came in at #4,230, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1974, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brayden
- 39 spots since 2024 (#190 → #229)
- 118 spots since 2020 (#111 → #229)
- 168 spots since 2015 (#61 → #229)
- Biggest jump: 157 spots in 1991 (#1,042 → #885)
- Biggest drop: 39 spots in 2025 (#190 → #229)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2011 at #36 (9,025 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 14 yrs · run 2005–2018
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1991–2025
- Highest: 1 in 210 boys born in 2010 were named Brayden (0.48%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,106 boys born in 2025 (0.09%)
- Its best rank, #36 in 2011, was only 1 in 210 (0.48%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 48.3% of all boys named Brayden (66,017) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 50 | #3,400 (1978) | #3,991 |
| 1980s | 318 | #1,173 (1989) | #2,467 |
| 1990s | 5,294 | #222 (1999) | #569 |
| 2000s | 50,382 | #48 (2009) | #105 |
| 2010s | 66,017 | #36 (2011) | #61 |
| 2020s | 14,487 | #111 (2020) | #162 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brayden in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 24,402 of them was named Brayden, which outranked 87.3% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,162Sydney83
- #1,162Wilfred83
- #1,162Yisroel83
- #1,173Brayden82
- #1,173Christia82
- #1,173Demetris82
- #1,173Derrik82
- #1,184Aidan81
- #1,184Breon81
- #1,184Dayton81
Tied with 10 names at #1,173; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.