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.
Where Brayden is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Rhode Island#54 · 1 in 178
- South Carolina#61 · 1 in 256
- Mississippi#61 · 1 in 258
- Delaware#66 · 1 in 206
- Kentucky#73 · 1 in 312
Best ever in a state: #3 in Kentucky, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | #54 | 19 | 1 in 178 |
| Mississippi | #61 | 47 | 1 in 258 |
| South Carolina | #61 | 78 | 1 in 256 |
| Delaware | #66 | 15 | 1 in 206 |
| Georgia | #73 | 159 | 1 in 316 |
| Kentucky | #73 | 63 | 1 in 312 |
| Montana | #74 | 13 | 1 in 254 |
| Alabama | #77 | 71 | 1 in 307 |
| Connecticut | #80 | 45 | 1 in 291 |
| Michigan | #80 | 128 | 1 in 334 |
| New Hampshire | #81 | 18 | 1 in 241 |
| Massachusetts | #84 | 81 | 1 in 331 |
| Pennsylvania | #87 | 155 | 1 in 348 |
| North Carolina | #88 | 141 | 1 in 347 |
| West Virginia | #91 | 24 | 1 in 290 |
| New Mexico | #92 | 21 | 1 in 347 |
| Virginia | #92 | 101 | 1 in 383 |
| Maryland | #93 | 69 | 1 in 363 |
| Louisiana | #100 | 58 | 1 in 372 |
| New Jersey | #102 | 92 | 1 in 427 |
| Tennessee | #102 | 84 | 1 in 406 |
| New York | #104 | 190 | 1 in 461 |
| Wyoming | #104 | 5 | 1 in 240 |
| Missouri | #107 | 71 | 1 in 401 |
| Florida | #108 | 203 | 1 in 444 |
| Wisconsin | #116 | 58 | 1 in 413 |
| Arkansas | #117 | 31 | 1 in 412 |
| Illinois | #121 | 106 | 1 in 516 |
| Minnesota | #125 | 54 | 1 in 463 |
| Colorado | #127 | 51 | 1 in 492 |
| District of Columbia | #127 | 9 | 1 in 388 |
| Nebraska | #128 | 21 | 1 in 418 |
| Indiana | #129 | 67 | 1 in 485 |
| Maine | #129 | 10 | 1 in 386 |
| Texas | #130 | 291 | 1 in 582 |
| Ohio | #134 | 109 | 1 in 500 |
| Arizona | #147 | 57 | 1 in 561 |
| Washington | #149 | 58 | 1 in 572 |
| Idaho | #150 | 15 | 1 in 516 |
| North Dakota | #150 | 8 | 1 in 421 |
| Kansas | #153 | 26 | 1 in 528 |
| Iowa | #161 | 24 | 1 in 566 |
| Hawaii | #166 | 7 | 1 in 494 |
| California | #169 | 250 | 1 in 758 |
| Oklahoma | #181 | 27 | 1 in 657 |
| Nevada | #182 | 19 | 1 in 624 |
| South Dakota | #191 | 6 | 1 in 556 |
| Oregon | #252 | 16 | 1 in 967 |
| Utah | #314 | 16 | 1 in 1,205 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Vermont | — | — | — |
Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 179,617 of them was named Brayden, which outranked 41.5% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,546Zuriya10
- #9,546Zyara10
- #9,546Zylie10
- #10,250Brayden9
- #10,250Aadriti9
- #10,250Aaima9
- #10,250Aalivia9
- #11,090Aadhvika8
- #11,090Aadvika8
- #11,090Aaila8
Tied with 839 names at #10,250; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 524 of them was named Brayden, which outranked 99.2% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.