Braylan
Braylan was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,879 among boys’ names; 1,393 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Braylan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braylan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Braylan?
#4,879 among boys’ names, 2025
Braylan fell from #2,115 in 2015 to #4,879 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 34.4 to 11.7 per million.
108 babies in 2011, the peak
Braylan peaked in 2011, when 108 babies were given it (102 boys, #1,545 among boys’ names). The 20 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,879 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,807 | 16.8 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,470 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,470 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 41 | #2,979 | 23.4 |
| 2020 | 44 | #2,764 | 25.5 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,904 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 40 | #2,952 | 22.0 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,682 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 50 | #2,522 | 26.3 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,115 | 34.4 |
| 2014 | 78 | #1,873 | 40.6 |
| 2013 | 88 | #1,685 | 46.5 |
| 2012 | 72 | #1,962 | 38.0 |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,545 | 53.7 |
| 2010 | 79 | #1,835 | 41.2 |
| 2009 | 90 | #1,721 | 45.4 |
| 2008 | 97 | #1,614 | 47.5 |
| 2007 | 59 | #2,240 | 28.4 |
| 2006 | 55 | #2,288 | 26.8 |
| 2005 | 49 | #2,366 | 24.5 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,081 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,631 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,521 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,412 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,316 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,365 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,918 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,248 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,220 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,947 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,856 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,253 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Braylan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,393 Americans recorded as Braylan, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 20 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Braylan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braylan, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,393 Americans ever recorded as Braylan. The median Braylan alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,149 people named Braylan (107 women and girls, 1,042 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,194 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 21 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 755 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 602 |
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 Braylan born?
The states with the most babies named Braylan are Texas, Georgia and North Carolina, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 100 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 71 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 57 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 48 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 43 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Mississippi | 33 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Alabama | 31 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Kentucky | 31 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 30 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 26 | not ranked | 0.6× |
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 Braylan 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 41,548 babies since 1880, Braylan is the fourth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 862 babies (2.3%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Braylan
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 Braylan and names like it
- Compare Braylan and BraylonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBraylan peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braylan since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Braylan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Braylan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.