Braylen — #667 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Braylen

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,880 babies named Braylen between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Braylen currently holds the #667 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 1,011 babies received it in a single year. Braylen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 777 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Braylen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,770 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Braylen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,209 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Braylen in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Braylen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 12,880 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.