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.
Where Brayton is popular in 1995
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Indiana#299 · 1 in 2,540
- Iowa#306 · 1 in 2,726
Best ever in a state: #172 in Indiana, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #299 | 15 | 1 in 2,540 |
| Iowa | #306 | 6 | 1 in 2,726 |
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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 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 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 36,610 of them was named Brayton, which outranked 83.5% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,682Tou53
- #1,682Tray53
- #1,682Vincente53
- #1,706Brayton52
- #1,706Adnan52
- #1,706Broc52
- #1,706Brodrick52
- #1,736Adarius51
- #1,736Braylon51
- #1,736Cortland51
Tied with 29 names at #1,706; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.