Braydan
Braydan was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,354 among boys’ names; 1,190 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Braydan 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 Braydan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Braydan?
#8,354 among boys’ names, 2025
Braydan fell from #2,925 in 2015 to #8,354 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.9 to 5.3 per million.
90 babies in 2009, the peak
Braydan peaked in 2009, when 90 boys were given it, #1,720 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,354 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,050 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,346 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,882 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,508 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,018 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,182 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,540 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,113 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,001 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,925 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 46 | #2,625 | 23.9 |
| 2013 | 72 | #1,931 | 38.1 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,070 | 34.8 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,036 | 34.8 |
| 2010 | 73 | #1,925 | 38.0 |
| 2009 | 90 | #1,720 | 45.4 |
| 2008 | 80 | #1,828 | 39.2 |
| 2007 | 76 | #1,876 | 36.6 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,012 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 76 | #1,741 | 38.1 |
| 2004 | 46 | #2,421 | 23.2 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,788 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,266 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,807 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,307 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 18 | #3,996 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,715 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,690 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,631 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,070 | 3.7 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,738 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Braydan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Braydan has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Braydan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braydan, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,190 Americans ever recorded as Braydan. The median Braydan alive today is 17 years old; half are between 13 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,086 people named Braydan (33 women and girls, 1,053 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,110 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 26 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 808 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 341 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 230,298 babies since 1880, Braydan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,954 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Braydan
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 Braydan and names like it
- Compare Braydan and BraydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBraydan peaked in 2009.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braydan since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Braydan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Braydan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.