Braedyn
Braedyn was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,421 among boys’ names; 2,590 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,560 Americans named Braedyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 12 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braedyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Braedyn?
#5,421 among boys’ names, 2025
Braedyn fell from #1,790 in 2015 to #5,421 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 43.8 to 10.0 per million.
198 babies in 2008, the peak
Braedyn peaked in 2008, when 198 babies were given it (178 boys, #1,061 among boys’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 17 | #5,421 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,676 | 18 | #5,264 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 15 | #5,963 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 30 | #3,699 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 27 | #3,924 | |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,740 | 37 | #3,079 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 50 | #2,588 | |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,705 | 54 | #2,420 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 77 | #1,884 | |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,984 | 76 | #1,923 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,036 | 84 | #1,790 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,299 | 119 | #1,414 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,659 | 118 | #1,414 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,562 | 149 | #1,202 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,601 | 160 | #1,132 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,950 | 181 | #1,060 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,084 | 175 | #1,064 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,591 | 178 | #1,061 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,735 | 150 | #1,178 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,399 | 136 | #1,229 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,194 | 117 | #1,301 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,452 | 81 | #1,604 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,103 | 64 | #1,844 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,742 | 54 | #2,018 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,793 | 28 | #3,146 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,218 | 32 | #2,803 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,546 | 30 | #2,796 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,075 | 15 | #4,433 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 9 | #6,139 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,158 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #7,906 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #6,735 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Braedyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,590 Americans recorded as Braedyn, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 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 Braedyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braedyn, and how old are they?
2,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,590 Americans ever recorded as Braedyn. The median Braedyn alive today is 16 years old; half are between 12 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,149 people named Braedyn (276 women and girls, 1,873 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,424 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 17 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,770 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 777 |
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 Braedyn born?
The states with the most babies named Braedyn are Texas, California and Ohio, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 188 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 81 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 79 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 75 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 68 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 47 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 42 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 40 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 36 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Braedyn 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, Braedyn is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 1,962 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Braedyn
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 Braedyn and names like it
- Compare Braedyn and BraydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBraedyn peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braedyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Braedyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Braedyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.