Braeden
Braeden was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,318 among boys’ names; 13,872 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,700 Americans named Braeden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braeden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Braeden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Braeden is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of somewhat uncommon usage, variant of Braden.”
A variant spelling of Braden.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Braeden?
#3,318 among boys’ names, 2025
Braeden fell from #798 in 2015 to #3,318 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.15 to 0.02 per 1,000.
1,027 babies in 2005, the peak
Braeden peaked in 2005, when 1,027 babies were given it (1,004 boys, #322 among boys’ names). The 35 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,318 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,394 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 47 | #2,740 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,082 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 89 | #1,786 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 83 | #1,798 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,495 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 123 | #1,421 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 150 | #1,221 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 205 | #994 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 293 | #798 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 289 | #793 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 330 | #714 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 446 | #577 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 561 | #476 | 0.30 |
| 2010 | 689 | #409 | 0.36 |
| 2009 | 816 | #373 | 0.41 |
| 2008 | 948 | #345 | 0.46 |
| 2007 | 979 | #325 | 0.47 |
| 2006 | 966 | #333 | 0.47 |
| 2005 | 1,004 | #322 | 0.50 |
| 2004 | 941 | #324 | 0.47 |
| 2003 | 876 | #330 | 0.44 |
| 2002 | 741 | #360 | 0.38 |
| 2001 | 605 | #415 | 0.31 |
| 2000 | 527 | #452 | 0.27 |
| 1999 | 406 | #523 | 0.21 |
| 1998 | 280 | #636 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 227 | #700 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 173 | #826 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,068 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 108 | #1,071 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,201 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 57 | #1,542 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 46 | #1,741 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,257 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,476 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,367 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,400 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,159 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,728 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,473 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,570 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,543 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,153 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,182 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Braeden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,872 Americans recorded as Braeden, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 35 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Braeden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braeden, and how old are they?
13,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 13,872 Americans ever recorded as Braeden. The median Braeden alive today is 20 years old; half are between 16 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 12,409 people named Braeden (245 women and girls, 12,164 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,358 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 739 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,870 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Braeden born?
The states with the most babies named Braeden are Texas, California and Ohio, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,129 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 896 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 605 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 538 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 522 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Wisconsin | 470 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 457 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 454 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 412 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 400 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Braeden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Braeden is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1973 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Braeden with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 231,698 babies since 1880, Braeden is the fourth most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 1,962 babies (1.8%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Braeden
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Braeden and names like it
- Compare Braeden and BraydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBraeden peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braeden since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Braeden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Braeden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Braeden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.