Braylen
Braylen was given to 366 boys in 2025, #725 among boys’ names; 14,058 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,900 Americans named Braylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Braylen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Braylen is “a male given name originating as a coinage.”
Modern American coinage.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Braylen?
#725 among boys’ names, 2025
Braylen fell from #414 in 2015 to #725 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.39 to 0.21 per 1,000.
1,054 babies in 2011, the peak
Braylen peaked in 2011, when 1,054 babies were given it (1,011 boys, #316 among boys’ names). The 396 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 38% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 366 | #725 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 412 | #665 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 509 | #575 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 543 | #545 | 0.31 |
| 2021 | 646 | #463 | 0.37 |
| 2020 | 582 | #501 | 0.34 |
| 2019 | 571 | #500 | 0.32 |
| 2018 | 622 | #466 | 0.34 |
| 2017 | 719 | #430 | 0.39 |
| 2016 | 703 | #438 | 0.37 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 753 | #414 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 759 | #407 | 0.40 |
| 2013 | 871 | #361 | 0.46 |
| 2012 | 965 | #327 | 0.51 |
| 2011 | 1,011 | #316 | 0.53 |
| 2010 | 798 | #368 | 0.42 |
| 2009 | 714 | #412 | 0.36 |
| 2008 | 449 | #573 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 337 | #696 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 276 | #763 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 222 | #834 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 107 | #1,357 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,078 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 56 | #1,970 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 38 | #2,519 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,333 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,724 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,034 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,075 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,407 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,072 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,315 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,188 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,345 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Braylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 14,058 Americans recorded as Braylen, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 girls and 366 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Braylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braylen, and how old are they?
13,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 14,058 Americans ever recorded as Braylen. The median Braylen alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 8,916 people named Braylen (594 women and girls, 8,322 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,853 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 66 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,470 |
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 Braylen born?
The states with the most babies named Braylen are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 34 | #793 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 31 | #376 | 2.5× |
| Florida | 25 | #652 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 24 | #448 | 2.2× |
| Ohio | 23 | #458 | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 20 | #274 | 3.1× |
| South Carolina | 18 | #388 | 2.8× |
| California | 16 | #1,206 | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 15 | #340 | 2.0× |
| Maryland | 15 | #345 | 1.2× |
Where Braylen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Braylen is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1991 it was given 4.2 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 Braylen 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, Braylen is the second most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 396 of their 862 babies (46%), the 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 Braylen
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 Braylen and names like it
- Compare Braylen and BraylonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBraylen peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braylen since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Braylen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Braylen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Braylen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.