Braydon
Braydon was given to 90 boys in 2025, #1,778 among boys’ names; 14,338 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,100 Americans named Braydon 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 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braydon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Braydon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Braydon is “a male given name.”
Modern spelling variant of Braden.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Braydon?
#1,778 among boys’ names, 2025
Braydon fell from #572 in 2015 to #1,778 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.26 to 0.05 per 1,000.
1,035 babies in 2009, the peak
Braydon peaked in 2009, when 1,035 boys were given it, #311 among boys’ names. The 90 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #1,778 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,600 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 128 | #1,422 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,381 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 189 | #1,103 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 186 | #1,074 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 220 | #974 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 258 | #856 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 342 | #713 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 384 | #672 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 491 | #572 | 0.26 |
| 2014 | 528 | #526 | 0.27 |
| 2013 | 588 | #472 | 0.31 |
| 2012 | 734 | #397 | 0.39 |
| 2011 | 805 | #369 | 0.42 |
| 2010 | 924 | #341 | 0.48 |
| 2009 | 1,035 | #311 | 0.52 |
| 2008 | 1,022 | #324 | 0.50 |
| 2007 | 870 | #364 | 0.42 |
| 2006 | 758 | #397 | 0.37 |
| 2005 | 752 | #385 | 0.38 |
| 2004 | 629 | #414 | 0.32 |
| 2003 | 467 | #516 | 0.24 |
| 2002 | 439 | #516 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 338 | #592 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 377 | #558 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 337 | #577 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 288 | #630 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 174 | #830 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 151 | #891 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 122 | #1,002 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,197 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,202 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 67 | #1,377 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 37 | #2,019 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,434 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,358 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 32 | #1,993 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,541 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,144 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,077 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,729 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,351 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,011 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,362 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,941 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Braydon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Braydon has been given almost only to boys: 23 girls in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Braydon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braydon, and how old are they?
14,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 14,338 Americans ever recorded as Braydon. The median Braydon alive today is 17 years old; half are between 13 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 12,384 people named Braydon (68 women and girls, 12,316 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,407 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 682 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,620 |
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 Braydon born?
The states with the most babies named Braydon are California, Kentucky and Texas, with 59% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,608 | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 7 | #574 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,323 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,659 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,296 | 1.4× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #756 | 1.3× |
Where Braydon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Braydon is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1977 it was given 2.2 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 Braydon 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, Braydon is the third most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 90 of their 1,962 babies (4.6%), again the third 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 Braydon
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 Braydon and names like it
- Compare Braydon and BraydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBraydon peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braydon since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Braydon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Braydon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.