Braxtin
Braxtin was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,183 among boys’ names; 541 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braxtin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Braxtin?
#6,183 among boys’ names, 2025
Braxtin fell from #3,794 in 2015 to #6,183 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 8.2 per million.
42 babies in 2017, the peak
Braxtin peaked in 2017, when 42 boys were given it, #2,845 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,183 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,403 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,584 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,533 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,381 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,931 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,355 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,102 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,845 | 22.7 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,893 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,794 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,795 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,196 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,540 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,054 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,906 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,927 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,415 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,231 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,509 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,311 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,223 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,782 | 5.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,399 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,210 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,368 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,015 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,945 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Braxtin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Braxtin has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 28 years of records.
Girls and boys named Braxtin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braxtin, and how old are they?
An estimated 536 Americans named Braxtin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 409 people named Braxtin (49 women and girls, 360 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 446 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% 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).
How common is the spelling Braxtin?
Braxtin is a less common spelling of Braxtyn: SSA has recorded 541 Braxtin and 2,446 Braxtyn since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 71,762 babies since 1880, Braxtin is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 2,294 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Braxtin
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 Braxtin and names like it
- Compare Braxtin and BraxtynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBraxtin peaked in 2017.
- Indiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braxtin since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Braxtin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Braxtin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.