Braven
Braven was given to 41 boys in 2025, #2,998 among boys’ names; 1,084 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Braven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Braven?
#2,998 among boys’ names, 2025
Braven fell from #2,461 in 2015 to #2,998 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.6 to 24.0 per million.
107 babies in 2018, the peak
Braven peaked in 2018, when 107 boys were given it, #1,566 among boys’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #2,998 | 24.0 |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,316 | 35.4 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,320 | 35.1 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,192 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 94 | #1,726 | 53.7 |
| 2020 | 79 | #1,877 | 45.8 |
| 2019 | 92 | #1,715 | 51.3 |
| 2018 | 107 | #1,566 | 58.9 |
| 2017 | 40 | #2,960 | 21.6 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,439 | 27.4 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #2,461 | 26.6 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,700 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,192 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,539 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,896 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,377 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,768 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,731 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,656 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,138 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,241 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,031 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,840 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,426 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,609 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,804 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,592 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,917 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,244 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,943 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Braven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,084 Americans recorded as Braven, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 41 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 Braven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braven, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,084 Americans ever recorded as Braven. The median Braven alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 630 people named Braven (34 women and girls, 596 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 679 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 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 830 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,145 babies since 1880, Braven is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 41 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Braven
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 Braven and names like it
- Compare Braven and BrayvenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBraven peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braven since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Braven.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Braven alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.