Braiden
Braiden was given to 44 boys in 2025, #2,841 among boys’ names; 7,789 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,690 Americans named Braiden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braiden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Braiden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Braiden is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.”
A variant spelling of Braden.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Braiden?
#2,841 among boys’ names, 2025
Braiden fell from #902 in 2015 to #2,841 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.13 to 0.03 per 1,000.
567 babies in 2010, the peak
Braiden peaked in 2010, when 567 babies were given it (557 boys, #468 among boys’ names). The 44 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #2,841 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,395 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,224 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 82 | #1,909 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 103 | #1,633 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 132 | #1,347 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,508 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 151 | #1,228 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 194 | #1,037 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 243 | #894 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 241 | #902 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 277 | #821 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 298 | #760 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 421 | #601 | 0.22 |
| 2011 | 468 | #545 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 557 | #468 | 0.29 |
| 2009 | 563 | #484 | 0.28 |
| 2008 | 555 | #493 | 0.27 |
| 2007 | 482 | #533 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 403 | #603 | 0.20 |
| 2005 | 391 | #582 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 305 | #669 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 234 | #757 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 230 | #754 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 192 | #842 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 150 | #984 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 147 | #973 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 89 | #1,335 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 78 | #1,399 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,319 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 59 | #1,572 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 47 | #1,822 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 52 | #1,676 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 38 | #2,045 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,831 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,616 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,034 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,216 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,175 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,629 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,645 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Braiden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,789 Americans recorded as Braiden, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 44 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 Braiden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braiden, and how old are they?
7,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,789 Americans ever recorded as Braiden. The median Braiden alive today is 17 years old; half are between 13 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 6,389 people named Braiden (179 women and girls, 6,210 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,264 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 384 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,980 |
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 Braiden born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,658 | 0.6× |
Where Braiden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Braiden is most over-represented in Utah: since 1984 it was given 2.0 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 Braiden 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, Braiden is the fifth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 1,962 babies (2.2%), 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 Braiden
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 Braiden and names like it
- Compare Braiden and BraydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBraiden peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braiden since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Braiden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Braiden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Braiden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.