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
- Peak · boys
- 2005 · 1,004 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 13,642since 1973
Braeden over time
Rank among boys' names. Braeden has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,314 | 35 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,393 | 58 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,737 | 47 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,083 | 72 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,784 | 89 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,798 | 83 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,494 | 114 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,418 | 123 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,219 | 150 | |
| 2016 | — | #993 | 205 | |
| 2015 | — | #796 | 293 | |
| 2014 | — | #793 | 289 | |
| 2013 | — | #714 | 330 | |
| 2012 | — | #576 | 446 | |
| 2011 | — | #476 | 561 | |
| 2010 | — | #409 | 689 | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #373 | 816 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #345 | 948 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #325 | 979 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #333 | 966 |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 | #322 | 1,004 |
| 2004 | #5,208 | 24 | #324 | 941 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | #330 | 876 |
| 2002 | #5,673 | 20 | #360 | 741 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #415 | 605 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #451 | 527 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #522 | 406 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #636 | 280 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | #701 | 227 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #827 | 173 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #1,069 | 110 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #1,075 | 108 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #1,205 | 87 |
| 1992 | — | #1,546 | 57 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #1,744 | 46 |
| 1990 | — | #2,255 | 31 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,469 | 26 | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #3,350 | 15 |
| 1987 | — | #2,400 | 23 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,701 | 11 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#518 · 1 in 2,756
- Massachusetts#535 · 1 in 3,680
- Tennessee#699 · 1 in 4,525
- Illinois#754 · 1 in 5,347
- Pennsylvania#777 · 1 in 6,581
Best ever in a state: #92 in South Dakota, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | #518 | 10 | 1 in 2,756 |
| Massachusetts | #535 | 8 | 1 in 3,680 |
| Tennessee | #699 | 8 | 1 in 4,525 |
| Illinois | #754 | 12 | 1 in 5,347 |
| Pennsylvania | #777 | 9 | 1 in 6,581 |
| Florida | #789 | 16 | 1 in 6,121 |
| Ohio | #830 | 9 | 1 in 6,591 |
| Georgia | #841 | 9 | 1 in 5,975 |
| Washington | #847 | 6 | 1 in 6,173 |
| Virginia | #863 | 6 | 1 in 6,936 |
| North Carolina | #999 | 6 | 1 in 8,662 |
| California | #1,094 | 19 | 1 in 11,773 |
| Texas | #1,246 | 14 | 1 in 13,230 |
| New York | #1,314 | 8 | 1 in 12,500 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Braeden
- 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)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2005 at #322 (1,004 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 1996–2016
- 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%)
- 61.6% of all boys named Braeden (8,403) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #5,101 (1973) | #5,579 |
| 1980s | 120 | #2,400 (1987) | #4,164 |
| 1990s | 1,525 | #522 (1999) | #1,158 |
| 2000s | 8,403 | #322 (2005) | #358 |
| 2010s | 3,200 | #409 (2010) | #889 |
| 2020s | 384 | #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 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 9,257 of them was named Braeden, which outranked 93.0% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #990Camilo206
- #990Giancarlo206
- #990Krish206
- #993Braeden205
- #993Anton205
- #993Jamar205
- #993Ralph205
- #999Brenden204
- #999Frankie204
- #999Gus204
Tied with 5 names at #993; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.