Brayden
Brayden was given to 1,545 boys in 2025, #229 among boys’ names; 137,606 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 136,000 Americans named Brayden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 11 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brayden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brayden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brayden is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Braden.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brayden?
#229 among boys’ names, 2025
Brayden fell from #61 in 2015 to #229 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.3 to 0.90 per 1,000.
9,168 babies in 2010, the peak
Brayden peaked in 2010, when 9,168 babies were given it (9,122 boys, #40 among boys’ names). The 1,545 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,545 | #229 | 0.90 |
| 2024 | 1,923 | #190 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 2,285 | #160 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 2,591 | #149 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 2,849 | #131 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 3,294 | #111 | 1.9 |
| 2019 | 3,690 | #101 | 2.1 |
| 2018 | 4,422 | #84 | 2.4 |
| 2017 | 5,178 | #72 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 5,734 | #64 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6,282 | #61 | 3.3 |
| 2014 | 6,596 | #62 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7,455 | #48 | 3.9 |
| 2012 | 8,513 | #39 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 9,025 | #36 | 4.8 |
| 2010 | 9,122 | #40 | 4.8 |
| 2009 | 8,603 | #48 | 4.3 |
| 2008 | 8,445 | #51 | 4.1 |
| 2007 | 7,226 | #64 | 3.5 |
| 2006 | 6,160 | #79 | 3.0 |
| 2005 | 5,512 | #80 | 2.8 |
| 2004 | 4,066 | #107 | 2.0 |
| 2003 | 3,672 | #110 | 1.9 |
| 2002 | 2,809 | #138 | 1.4 |
| 2001 | 2,129 | #176 | 1.1 |
| 2000 | 1,760 | #199 | 0.90 |
| 1999 | 1,523 | #222 | 0.79 |
| 1998 | 1,015 | #284 | 0.53 |
| 1997 | 724 | #351 | 0.38 |
| 1996 | 604 | #390 | 0.32 |
| 1995 | 450 | #480 | 0.24 |
| 1994 | 310 | #585 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 250 | #650 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 173 | #793 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 142 | #881 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 103 | #1,038 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,169 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 61 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 39 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 43 | #1,538 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 29 | #1,975 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,975 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,427 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,850 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,278 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,108 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,422 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,640 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,746 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #3,986 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,286 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brayden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brayden has been given almost only to boys: 1,058 girls in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brayden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brayden, and how old are they?
136,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 137,606 Americans ever recorded as Brayden. The median Brayden alive today is 15 years old; half are between 11 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 109,062 people named Brayden (959 women and girls, 108,103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 122,754 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 57 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,310 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 80,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 53,600 |
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 Brayden born?
The states with the most babies named Brayden are California, Texas and Florida, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 140 | #263 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 124 | #306 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 119 | #186 | 0.8× |
| New York | 110 | #176 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 70 | #180 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 63 | #201 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 56 | #218 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 54 | #130 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 53 | #195 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 53 | #187 | 0.7× |
Where Brayden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brayden is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1970 it was given 1.7 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 Brayden 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 231,698 babies since 1880, Brayden is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,545 of their 1,962 babies (79%), 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 Brayden
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 Brayden and names like it
- Compare Brayden and BradenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrayden peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brayden since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Brayden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Brayden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brayden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.