Brayant
Brayant was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 287 Americans have been recorded with it between 1986 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brayant by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brayant?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,065, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 2003, the peak
Brayant peaked in 2003, when 24 boys were given it, #3,630 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #11,065 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,528 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,227 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,280 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,440 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,668 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,139 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,063 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,278 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,630 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 20 | #4,051 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,853 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,597 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,558 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,904 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,246 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,561 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,431 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,808 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,700 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,344 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,025 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,290 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,403 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,178 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,840 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brayant a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brayant has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brayant: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brayant, and how old are they?
An estimated 280 Americans named Brayant and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 21 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 288 people named Brayant (8 women and girls, 280 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 276 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 9,866 babies since 1880, Brayant is the second most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 35 babies recorded by SSA was a Brayant (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Brayant
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 Brayant and names like it
- Compare Brayant and BrantBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrayant peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brayant since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Brayant.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brayant alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.