Braelon
Braelon was given to 32 boys in 2025, #3,522 among boys’ names; 500 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braelon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Braelon?
#3,522 among boys’ names, 2025
Braelon rose from #4,736 in 2015 to #3,522 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 18.7 per million.
47 babies in 2010, the peak
Braelon peaked in 2010, when 47 boys were given it, #2,584 among boys’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #3,522 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,463 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,689 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,879 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,940 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,738 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,719 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,962 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,238 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,948 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,736 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,338 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 25 | #3,980 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,813 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,315 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 47 | #2,584 | 24.5 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,344 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,348 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,018 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,373 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,723 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,274 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,927 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,761 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,706 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,547 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,820 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,365 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Braelon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Braelon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Braelon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braelon, and how old are they?
An estimated 495 Americans named Braelon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 365 people named Braelon (17 women and girls, 348 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 400 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,548 babies since 1880, Braelon is the seventh most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 862 babies (3.7%), the fourth 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 Braelon
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 Braelon and names like it
- Compare Braelon and BraylonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braelon since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Braelon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Braelon alive today were born 1997-2012.
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