Brayan
Brayan was given to 334 boys in 2025, #768 among boys’ names; 16,558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,300 Americans named Brayan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brayan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brayan mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Brayan is “a male given name from English, of modern usage”
Phonetic rendering of English Brian.
/ˈbɾaʝan/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brayan?
#768 among boys’ names, 2025
Brayan fell from #596 in 2015 to #768 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.24 to 0.20 per 1,000.
1,151 babies in 2006, the peak
Brayan peaked in 2006, when 1,151 boys were given it, #294 among boys’ names. The 334 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 334 | #768 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 369 | #718 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 284 | #852 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 323 | #783 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 252 | #910 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 265 | #858 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 270 | #835 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 271 | #824 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 347 | #705 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 415 | #641 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 462 | #596 | 0.24 |
| 2014 | 498 | #552 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 525 | #510 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 531 | #501 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 638 | #428 | 0.34 |
| 2010 | 788 | #370 | 0.41 |
| 2009 | 887 | #352 | 0.45 |
| 2008 | 993 | #331 | 0.49 |
| 2007 | 1,061 | #310 | 0.51 |
| 2006 | 1,151 | #294 | 0.56 |
| 2005 | 978 | #326 | 0.49 |
| 2004 | 891 | #336 | 0.45 |
| 2003 | 806 | #347 | 0.41 |
| 2002 | 761 | #355 | 0.39 |
| 2001 | 541 | #448 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 480 | #486 | 0.24 |
| 1999 | 290 | #623 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 244 | #688 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 183 | #798 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 166 | #842 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 112 | #1,060 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 87 | #1,240 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 62 | #1,490 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 59 | #1,505 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 68 | #1,362 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 51 | #1,613 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,477 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,768 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,273 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,423 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,246 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,984 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,156 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brayan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brayan has been given almost only to boys: 18 girls in 44 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brayan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brayan, and how old are they?
16,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 16,558 Americans ever recorded as Brayan. The median Brayan alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 14,239 people named Brayan (70 women and girls, 14,169 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,641 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 670 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,580 |
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 Brayan born?
The states with the most babies named Brayan are California, Texas and Florida, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 50 | #592 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 47 | #639 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 25 | #651 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 16 | #628 | 1.4× |
| New York | 13 | #958 | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 13 | #401 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 11 | #597 | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #787 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #666 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #677 | 0.8× |
Where Brayan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brayan is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1979 it was given 1.9 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 Brayan 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 22,983 babies since 1880, Brayan is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 334 of their 367 babies (91%), 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 Brayan
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 Brayan and names like it
- Compare Brayan and BrainBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrayan peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brayan since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Brayan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Brayan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brayan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.