Braylon
Braylon was given to 289 boys in 2025, #848 among boys’ names; 18,959 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,800 Americans named Braylon 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 Braylon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Braylon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Braylon is “a male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Braylen.”
Modern American coinage.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Braylon?
#848 among boys’ names, 2025
Braylon fell from #392 in 2015 to #848 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.42 to 0.17 per 1,000.
1,702 babies in 2009, the peak
Braylon peaked in 2009, when 1,702 babies were given it (1,695 boys, #218 among boys’ names). The 294 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 289 | #848 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 359 | #732 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 437 | #634 | 0.26 |
| 2022 | 491 | #583 | 0.28 |
| 2021 | 624 | #479 | 0.36 |
| 2020 | 526 | #537 | 0.30 |
| 2019 | 446 | #613 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 499 | #554 | 0.27 |
| 2017 | 629 | #474 | 0.34 |
| 2016 | 738 | #425 | 0.39 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 813 | #392 | 0.42 |
| 2014 | 833 | #378 | 0.43 |
| 2013 | 1,049 | #317 | 0.55 |
| 2012 | 1,253 | #278 | 0.66 |
| 2011 | 1,532 | #234 | 0.81 |
| 2010 | 1,473 | #237 | 0.77 |
| 2009 | 1,695 | #218 | 0.85 |
| 2008 | 1,388 | #254 | 0.68 |
| 2007 | 818 | #376 | 0.39 |
| 2006 | 753 | #400 | 0.37 |
| 2005 | 818 | #360 | 0.41 |
| 2004 | 272 | #705 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 156 | #1,012 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 118 | #1,184 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 83 | #1,468 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,311 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,455 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 74 | #1,486 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 66 | #1,548 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 57 | #1,670 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 51 | #1,732 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 45 | #1,863 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,048 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,307 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 44 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,628 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,791 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,517 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #3,992 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,011 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,431 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,562 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,713 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,559 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Braylon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Braylon has been given almost only to boys: 163 girls in 45 years of records.
Girls and boys named Braylon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braylon, and how old are they?
18,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 18,959 Americans ever recorded as Braylon. The median Braylon alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 13,830 people named Braylon (183 women and girls, 13,647 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 371 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,760 |
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 Braylon born?
The states with the most babies named Braylon are Texas, Georgia and Ohio, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 32 | #829 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 21 | #501 | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 19 | #543 | 2.0× |
| Florida | 18 | #812 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #597 | 1.5× |
| Tennessee | 16 | #480 | 2.0× |
| Alabama | 15 | #362 | 2.8× |
| Virginia | 13 | #565 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 11 | #427 | 3.8× |
| Mississippi | 10 | #316 | 3.4× |
Where Braylon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Braylon is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1981 it was given 3.8 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 Braylon 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, Braylon is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 294 of their 862 babies (34%), the second 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 Braylon
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 Braylon and names like it
- Compare Braylon and BraylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBraylon peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braylon since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Braylon: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Braylon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Braylon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.