Brayton
Last seen for girls in 2006 at #15,152 · #3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 86 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,506since 1916
Brayton over time
Rank among boys' names. Brayton has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | — | #3,949 | 27 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,321 | 24 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,112 | 26 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,517 | 54 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,695 | 47 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,505 | 51 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,491 | 53 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,507 | 51 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,417 | 53 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,086 | 67 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,826 | 81 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,576 | 100 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,733 | 84 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,514 | 106 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,719 | 86 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,677 | 92 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,774 | 85 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,874 | 77 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,760 | 84 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #1,919 | 70 |
| 2005 | — | #1,525 | 93 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,731 | 73 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,529 | 84 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,529 | 81 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #1,564 | 77 |
| 2000 | — | #1,408 | 88 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,503 | 75 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,536 | 70 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,310 | 87 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,278 | 86 |
| 1995 | — | #1,706 | 52 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,894 | 44 |
| 1993 | — | #2,209 | 35 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,909 | 23 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,989 | 21 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,058 | 20 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,205 | 18 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,350 | 15 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,521 | 13 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,440 | 13 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,230 | 13 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,966 | 10 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,030 | 14 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
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| 1970 | — | #3,521 | 8 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
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| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brayton! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brayton
- 372 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #3,949)
- 1,444 spots since 2020 (#2,505 → #3,949)
- 2,123 spots since 2015 (#1,826 → #3,949)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1996 at #1,278 (86 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 27 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,896 boys born in 2012 were named Brayton (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,278 in 1996, was only 1 in 22,027 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.4% of all boys named Brayton (812) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 15 | #3,897 (1916) | #4,081 |
| 1920s | 14 | #2,986 (1921) | #3,613 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,430 (1944) | #3,430 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,329 (1950) | #3,329 |
| 1960s | 12 | #3,356 (1961) | #3,746 |
| 1970s | 13 | #3,521 (1970) | #4,647 |
| 1980s | 114 | #3,030 (1981) | #3,594 |
| 1990s | 513 | #1,278 (1996) | #2,039 |
| 2000s | 812 | #1,408 (2000) | #1,661 |
| 2010s | 773 | #1,514 (2012) | #1,955 |
| 2020s | 229 | #2,505 (2020) | #3,350 |
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.
Brayton in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 357,151 of them was named Brayton, which outranked 14.8% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 43,910 of them was named Brayton, which outranked 81.5% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,868Weldon45
- #1,868Wiley45
- #1,868Zacharias45
- #1,894Brayton44
- #1,894Aram44
- #1,894Avrohom44
- #1,894Brando44
- #1,927Amari43
- #1,927Boston43
- #1,927Brodrick43
Tied with 32 names at #1,894; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.