Brayton
Brayton was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,963 among boys’ names; 2,528 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,450 Americans named Brayton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brayton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brayton?
#3,963 among boys’ names, 2025
Brayton fell from #1,830 in 2015 to #3,963 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 42.3 to 15.8 per million.
106 babies in 2012, the peak
Brayton peaked in 2012, when 106 boys were given it, #1,515 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,963 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,335 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,123 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 54 | #2,522 | 30.9 |
| 2021 | 47 | #2,697 | 26.9 |
| 2020 | 51 | #2,512 | 29.5 |
| 2019 | 53 | #2,491 | 29.5 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,510 | 28.1 |
| 2017 | 53 | #2,422 | 28.6 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,090 | 35.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #1,830 | 42.3 |
| 2014 | 100 | #1,576 | 52.1 |
| 2013 | 84 | #1,736 | 44.4 |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,515 | 55.9 |
| 2011 | 86 | #1,721 | 45.3 |
| 2010 | 92 | #1,677 | 47.9 |
| 2009 | 85 | #1,775 | 42.9 |
| 2008 | 77 | #1,876 | 37.7 |
| 2007 | 84 | #1,761 | 40.5 |
| 2006 | 70 | #1,921 | 34.1 |
| 2005 | 93 | #1,524 | 46.6 |
| 2004 | 73 | #1,731 | 36.8 |
| 2003 | 84 | #1,526 | 42.5 |
| 2002 | 81 | #1,527 | 41.7 |
| 2001 | 77 | #1,561 | 39.6 |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,405 | 44.8 |
| 1999 | 75 | #1,503 | 39.1 |
| 1998 | 70 | #1,534 | 36.6 |
| 1997 | 87 | #1,307 | 46.2 |
| 1996 | 86 | #1,276 | 45.4 |
| 1995 | 52 | #1,702 | 27.3 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,892 | 22.8 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,212 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,909 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #2,996 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,060 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,210 | 9.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,368 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,542 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,461 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,078 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,603 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,252 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 10 | #3,992 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,046 | 7.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,900 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,555 | 4.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,196 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,386 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,361 | 3.4 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,485 | 3.7 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,315 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,009 | 8.2 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,224 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,249 | 4.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #3,969 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brayton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brayton has been given almost only to boys: 22 girls in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brayton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brayton, and how old are they?
2,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,528 Americans ever recorded as Brayton. The median Brayton alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,196 people named Brayton (63 women and girls, 2,133 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,246 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 389 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 712 |
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 Brayton born?
The states with the most babies named Brayton are Indiana, Iowa and Texas, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana and Iowa are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 335 | not ranked | 5.8× |
| Iowa | 139 | not ranked | 5.0× |
| Texas | 78 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 67 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 23 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 21 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 20 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Nebraska | 18 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Brayton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brayton is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1916 it was given 5.8 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 Brayton 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 12,149 babies since 1880, Brayton is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 35 babies (77%), 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 Brayton
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 Brayton and names like it
- Compare Brayton and BartonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrayton peaked in 2012.
- Indiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brayton since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Brayton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brayton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.