Brayson

#2,390 for boys in 2025, 57 births

Peak · boys
2017 · 218 births
Debut · boys
9 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,161
since 1994

Brayson over time

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Rank among boys' names. Brayson has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006peak #955, 2017boys
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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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rankbirths
2025#2,39057
2024#1,79591
2023#1,99976
2022#1,540116
2021#1,280148
2020#1,215155
2019#1,066191
2018#1,059191
2017#955218
2016#963214
2015#1,057188
2014#981213
2013#1,075174
2012#1,052181
2011#1,071175
2010#1,183152
2009#1,497111
2008#1,70889
2007#1,95172
2006#1,91970
2005#1,77274
2004#2,53143
2003#2,99332
2002#3,09529
2001#4,12119
2000#4,06619
1999#4,76214
1998#5,46611
1997#3,87717
1996#7,9716
1995#7,7926
1994#5,8689
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First appearance
1994

The first year at least five boys were named Brayson! It came in at #5,868, and was given to 9 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1994–1996, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.

See more about Brayson
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 595 spots since 2024 (#1,795#2,390)
  • 1,175 spots since 2020 (#1,215#2,390)
  • 1,333 spots since 2015 (#1,057#2,390)
  • Biggest jump: 94 spots in 2014 (#1,075#981)
  • Biggest drop: 104 spots in 2018 (#955#1,059)
Rise & fade · boys
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1994
  • Peaked 2017 at #955 (218 births)
  • Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2016–2017
Share of babies · boys
1 in 8,491
  • Highest: 1 in 8,491 boys born in 2017 were named Brayson (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 29,966 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 60.0% of all boys named Brayson (1,897) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s63#3,877 (1997)#5,956
2000s558#1,497 (2009)#2,565
2010s1,897#955 (2017)#1,046
2020s643#1,215 (2020)#1,703

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.

Brayson in 2006

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#1,919
70 births · 1 in 29,361 boys

Top boys' names in 2006

  1. #1Jacob24,871
  2. #2Michael22,653
  3. #3Joshua22,336
  4. #4Ethan20,522
  5. #5Matthew20,339
  6. #6Daniel20,082
  7. #7Andrew19,733
  8. #8Christopher19,688
  9. #9Anthony19,413
  10. #10William18,965
  11. #1,919Brayson70
More about 2006

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2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 29,361 of them was named Brayson, which outranked 86.3% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Brayson
  1. #1,893Rodrick71
  2. #1,893Shelby71
  3. #1,893Tahj71
  4. #1,919Brayson70
  5. #1,919Anirudh70
  6. #1,919Blane70
  7. #1,919Brayton70
  8. #1,943Aadi69
  9. #1,943Aayush69
  10. #1,943Ahmir69

Tied with 23 names at #1,919; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 792Bode#1,648#856
  2. 790Talen#1,691#901
  3. 677Kingston#1,603#926
  4. 634Imanol#1,619#985
  5. 590Yandel#1,266#676
Fallers
  1. 2,208Baby#945#3,153
  2. 609Kanye#892#1,501
  3. 442Amarion#628#1,070
  4. 308Omarion#420#728
  5. 224Johnpaul#739#963

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

See the top 100 for 2006