Braiden
Last seen for girls in 2011 at #14,824 · #2,833 for boys in 2025, 44 births
Given to boys 98.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2010 · 557 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,637since 1984
Braiden over time
Rank among boys' names. Braiden has never cracked the top 400 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 | — | #2,833 | 44 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,393 | 58 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,221 | 64 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,907 | 82 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,632 | 103 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,347 | 132 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,507 | 113 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,228 | 151 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,036 | 194 | |
| 2016 | — | #894 | 243 | |
| 2015 | — | #902 | 241 | |
| 2014 | — | #821 | 277 | |
| 2013 | — | #759 | 298 | |
| 2012 | — | #601 | 421 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #545 | 468 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #468 | 557 |
| 2009 | — | #484 | 563 | |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #493 | 555 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #533 | 482 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #603 | 403 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #582 | 391 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #669 | 305 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #758 | 234 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #753 | 230 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #843 | 192 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #986 | 150 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | #975 | 147 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #1,338 | 89 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #1,402 | 78 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #1,321 | 82 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #1,577 | 59 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #1,822 | 47 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #1,680 | 52 |
| 1992 | — | #2,046 | 38 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,828 | 23 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,607 | 16 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,017 | 13 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,203 | 16 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,457 | 9 | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Braiden! It came in at #5,561, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1985, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Braiden is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#345 · 1 in 1,524
- Kentucky#633 · 1 in 4,327
- Alabama#641 · 1 in 3,812
- North Carolina#683 · 1 in 4,666
- Ohio#788 · 1 in 5,836
Best ever in a state: #140 in West Virginia, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #345 | 9 | 1 in 1,524 |
| Kentucky | #633 | 5 | 1 in 4,327 |
| Alabama | #641 | 6 | 1 in 3,812 |
| North Carolina | #683 | 11 | 1 in 4,666 |
| Ohio | #788 | 10 | 1 in 5,836 |
| Louisiana | #795 | 5 | 1 in 4,771 |
| Indiana | #819 | 6 | 1 in 5,742 |
| Tennessee | #832 | 6 | 1 in 6,045 |
| Pennsylvania | #856 | 8 | 1 in 7,276 |
| Washington | #858 | 6 | 1 in 5,926 |
| Michigan | #873 | 7 | 1 in 6,632 |
| Florida | #969 | 12 | 1 in 8,056 |
| Texas | #1,012 | 19 | 1 in 9,272 |
| California | #1,434 | 12 | 1 in 17,976 |
| New York | #1,560 | 6 | 1 in 16,259 |
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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 Braiden
- 440 spots since 2024 (#2,393 → #2,833)
- 1,486 spots since 2020 (#1,347 → #2,833)
- 1,931 spots since 2015 (#902 → #2,833)
- Biggest jump: 363 spots in 1999 (#1,338 → #975)
- Biggest drop: 158 spots in 2013 (#601 → #759)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 2010 at #468 (557 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1999–2016
- Highest: 1 in 3,445 boys born in 2010 were named Braiden (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 38,820 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.9% of all boys named Braiden (3,505) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 55 | #3,203 (1988) | #4,975 |
| 1990s | 631 | #975 (1999) | #1,860 |
| 2000s | 3,505 | #484 (2009) | #670 |
| 2010s | 2,963 | #468 (2010) | #876 |
| 2020s | 483 | #1,347 (2020) | #2,056 |
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.
Braiden in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 9,541 of them was named Braiden, which outranked 92.7% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,029Kymani195
- #1,029Menachem195
- #1,029Semaj195
- #1,036Braiden194
- #1,036Adler194
- #1,036Denzel194
- #1,036Lian194
- #1,042Efrain193
- #1,042Harris193
- #1,042Karim193
Tied with 5 names at #1,036; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.