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 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 75,683 of them was named Brayden, which outranked 72.1% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,370Vilma24
- #4,370Yasmina24
- #4,370Zayna24
- #4,508Brayden23
- #4,508Abigal23
- #4,508Adrina23
- #4,508Adryanna23
- #4,660Aalyiah22
- #4,660Aleeya22
- #4,660Aleeyah22
Tied with 151 names at #4,508; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 2,604 of them was named Brayden, which outranked 96.8% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.