Braylen

#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · #725 for boys in 2025, 366 births
Given to boys 94.3% of the time

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Peak · boys
2011 · 1,011 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
13,251
since 1991

Braylen over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201991peak #316, 2011girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,54630#725366
2024#5,79921#665412
2023#4,74628#575509
2022#3,76540#545543
2021#2,67464#463646
2020#4,54829#501582
2019#4,65329#500571
2018#4,45831#466622
2017#3,43645#430719
2016#3,92338#438703
2015#3,59543#414753
2014#3,77840#407759
2013#3,51344#361871
2012#3,78241#327965
2011#3,60343#3161,011
2010#3,68942#368798
2009#3,67743#412714
2008#4,76131#573449
2007#6,81219#696337
2006#5,54524#763276
2005#6,52818#834222
2004#6,48918#1,359107
2003#9,67110#2,07754
2002#10,2469#1,97456
2001#11,0208#2,52038
2000#11,8017#2,33041
1999#11,3857#2,72231
1998#4,01917
1997#4,05916
1996#3,40620
1995#6,9927
1994#13,4305#4,29014
1993#5,7719
1992#6,1288
1991#8,2365
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First appearance
1991

The first year at least five boys were named Braylen! It came in at #8,236, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Braylen is popular in 1991

No state had 5 or more boys named Braylen in 1991, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Braylen
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 60 spots since 2024 (#665#725)
  • 224 spots since 2020 (#501#725)
  • 311 spots since 2015 (#414#725)
  • Biggest jump: 525 spots in 2005 (#1,359#834)
  • Biggest drop: 90 spots in 2024 (#575#665)
Rise & fade · boys
20 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 2011 at #316 (1,011 births)
  • Births halved by 2024, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 21 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2005–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 1,879
  • Highest: 1 in 1,879 boys born in 2011 were named Braylen (0.05%)
  • Latest: 1 in 4,667 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 58.7% of all boys named Braylen (7,772) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s127#2,722 (1999)#5,069
2000s2,294#412 (2009)#1,354
2010s7,772#316 (2011)#403
2020s3,058#463 (2021)#579

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.

Braylen in 1991

boys
#8,236
5 births · 1 in 404,066 boys

Top boys' names in 1991

  1. #1Michael60,810
  2. #2Christopher47,111
  3. #3Matthew41,647
  4. #4Joshua41,226
  5. #5Andrew31,539
  6. #6Daniel30,935
  7. #7James30,514
  8. #8David30,416
  9. #9Joseph29,840
  10. #10John27,809
  11. #8,236Braylen5
More about 1991

boys

2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 404,066 of them was named Braylen, which outranked 14.6% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Braylen
  1. #7,271Zia6
  2. #7,271Zubair6
  3. #7,271Zubin6
  4. #8,236Braylen5
  5. #8,236Aaran5
  6. #8,236Aarick5
  7. #8,236Abdo5

Tied with 1,412 names at #8,236; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1990
Risers
  1. 4,462Devante#5,382#920
  2. 1,656Unnamed#2,628#972
  3. 1,496Jaleel#2,373#877
  4. 811Gunnar#1,516#705
  5. 672Dijon#1,587#915
Fallers
  1. 1,000Arsenio#744#1,744
  2. 773Brittany#995#1,768
  3. 281Infant#389#670
  4. 281Jarret#881#1,162
  5. 273Elton#963#1,236

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1991