Braedon
Braedon was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,857 among boys’ names; 3,994 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,930 Americans named Braedon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 17 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braedon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Braedon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Braedon is “a male given name.”
Modern spelling variant of Braden.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Braedon?
#6,857 among boys’ names, 2025
Braedon fell from #2,069 in 2015 to #6,857 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 35.5 to 7.0 per million.
284 babies in 2006, the peak
Braedon peaked in 2006, when 284 boys were given it, #745 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,857 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,399 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,583 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,529 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,380 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,151 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,984 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,174 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,015 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,112 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,069 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,020 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 106 | #1,521 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 129 | #1,324 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 178 | #1,056 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 180 | #1,069 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 224 | #925 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 264 | #829 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 266 | #805 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 284 | #745 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 261 | #760 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 269 | #713 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 215 | #809 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 205 | #819 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 178 | #883 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 204 | #793 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 167 | #899 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 97 | #1,245 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 66 | #1,547 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 77 | #1,373 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 56 | #1,619 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 47 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,293 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 33 | #2,253 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,650 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,781 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,291 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,181 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,016 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,498 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,739 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,429 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Braedon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Braedon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Braedon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braedon, and how old are they?
3,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,994 Americans ever recorded as Braedon. The median Braedon alive today is 20 years old; half are between 17 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 3,575 people named Braedon (33 women and girls, 3,542 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,860 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 325 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 465 |
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 Braedon born?
The states with the most babies named Braedon are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 331 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 231 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 163 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 149 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 109 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 104 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 97 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 96 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 92 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 89 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Braedon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Braedon is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1984 it was given 1.1 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 Braedon 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, Braedon is the seventh most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 1,962 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Braedon
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 Braedon and names like it
- Compare Braedon and BraydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBraedon peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braedon since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Braedon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Braedon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.