Braeden

Last seen for girls in 2009 at #13,704 · #3,314 for boys in 2025, 35 births
Given to boys 98.3% of the time

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Peak · boys
2005 · 1,004 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
13,642
since 1973

Braeden over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Braeden has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201973peak #322, 2005boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#3,31435
2024—#2,39358
2023—#2,73747
2022—#2,08372
2021—#1,78489
2020—#1,79883
2019—#1,494114
2018—#1,418123
2017—#1,219150
2016—#993205
2015—#796293
2014—#793289
2013—#714330
2012—#576446
2011—#476561
2010—#409689
2009#13,7047#373816
2008#10,80710#345948
2007#10,81810#325979
2006#8,71513#333966
2005#5,43723#3221,004
2004#5,20824#324941
2003#7,58014#330876
2002#5,67320#360741
2001#8,19612#415605
2000#7,58013#451527
1999#7,71612#522406
1998#6,07316#636280
1997#7,28312#701227
1996#11,8076#827173
1995#7,51411#1,069110
1994#8,12210#1,075108
1993#11,7806#1,20587
1992—#1,54657
1991#13,1475#1,74446
1990—#2,25531
1989—#2,46926
1988#10,3866#3,35015
1987—#2,40023
1986—#4,13010
1985—#4,3339
1984—#3,70111
1983—#4,9077
1982—#6,3855
1981—#5,4686
1980—#4,4958
1979—#6,0565
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1973—#5,1015
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five boys were named Braeden! It came in at #5,101, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1973–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Braeden is popular in 1973

No state had 5 or more boys named Braeden in 1973, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Braeden
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 921 spots since 2024 (#2,393 → #3,314)
  • 1,516 spots since 2020 (#1,798 → #3,314)
  • 2,518 spots since 2015 (#796 → #3,314)
  • Biggest jump: 242 spots in 1996 (#1,069 → #827)
  • Biggest drop: 226 spots in 2017 (#993 → #1,219)
Rise & fade · boys
32 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 2005 at #322 (1,004 births)
  • Births halved by 2012, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 21 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 1996–2016
Share of babies · boys
1 in 1,989
  • Highest: 1 in 1,989 boys born in 2005 were named Braeden (0.05%)
  • Latest: 1 in 48,802 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 61.6% of all boys named Braeden (8,403) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s10#5,101 (1973)#5,579
1980s120#2,400 (1987)#4,164
1990s1,525#522 (1999)#1,158
2000s8,403#322 (2005)#358
2010s3,200#409 (2010)#889
2020s384#1,784 (2021)#2,352

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Braeden in 1973

boys
#5,101
5 births · 1 in 311,715 boys

Top boys' names in 1973

  1. #1Michael67,797
  2. #2Christopher48,313
  3. #3Jason46,683
  4. #4James42,836
  5. #5David41,082
  6. #6John39,165
  7. #7Robert38,698
  8. #8Brian35,686
  9. #9William28,018
  10. #10Matthew24,531
  11. #5,101Braeden5
More about 1973

boys

1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 311,715 of them was named Braeden, which outranked 13.2% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Braeden
  1. #4,505Zedrick6
  2. #4,505Zef6
  3. #4,505Zoe6
  4. #5,101Braeden5
  5. #5,101Abdalla5
  6. #5,101Abiel5
  7. #5,101Abrahm5

Tied with 776 names at #5,101; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1972
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,348Vashon#3,152 → #804
  2. ↑ 1,405Jory#2,158 → #753
  3. ↑ 348Pernell#1,262 → #914
  4. ↑ 345Enoch#1,307 → #962
  5. ↑ 273Tarik#1,177 → #904
Fallers
  1. ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
  2. ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
  3. ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
  4. ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
  5. ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1973 →