Brayan
Last seen for girls in 2009 at #17,294 · #768 for boys in 2025, 334 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2006 · 1,151 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 16,540since 1979
Brayan over time
Rank among boys' names. Brayan has never cracked the top 200 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 | — | #768 | 334 | |
| 2024 | — | #718 | 369 | |
| 2023 | — | #851 | 284 | |
| 2022 | — | #782 | 323 | |
| 2021 | — | #910 | 252 | |
| 2020 | — | #858 | 265 | |
| 2019 | — | #834 | 270 | |
| 2018 | — | #824 | 271 | |
| 2017 | — | #705 | 347 | |
| 2016 | — | #641 | 415 | |
| 2015 | — | #596 | 462 | |
| 2014 | — | #552 | 498 | |
| 2013 | — | #510 | 525 | |
| 2012 | — | #501 | 531 | |
| 2011 | — | #428 | 638 | |
| 2010 | — | #370 | 788 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #352 | 887 |
| 2008 | — | #331 | 993 | |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #310 | 1,061 |
| 2006 | — | #294 | 1,151 | |
| 2005 | — | #326 | 978 | |
| 2004 | — | #336 | 891 | |
| 2003 | — | #347 | 806 | |
| 2002 | — | #355 | 761 | |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #447 | 541 |
| 2000 | — | #486 | 480 | |
| 1999 | — | #624 | 290 | |
| 1998 | — | #688 | 244 | |
| 1997 | — | #799 | 183 | |
| 1996 | — | #844 | 166 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,062 | 112 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,244 | 87 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,493 | 62 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,510 | 59 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,368 | 68 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,615 | 51 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,469 | 26 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,765 | 20 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,401 | 13 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brayan! It came in at #6,056, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1982, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Brayan is popular in 1993
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#609 · 1 in 7,249
- Texas#1,215 · 1 in 21,867
Best ever in a state: #114 in Delaware, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #609 | 38 | 1 in 7,249 |
| Texas | #1,215 | 7 | 1 in 21,867 |
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See more about Brayan
- 50 spots since 2024 (#718 → #768)
- 90 spots since 2020 (#858 → #768)
- 172 spots since 2015 (#596 → #768)
- Biggest jump: 218 spots in 1996 (#1,062 → #844)
- Biggest drop: 119 spots in 2018 (#705 → #824)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2006 at #294 (1,151 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1996–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,786 boys born in 2006 were named Brayan (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,114 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 51.7% of all boys named Brayan (8,549) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 92 | #2,469 (1989) | #3,904 |
| 1990s | 1,322 | #624 (1999) | #1,125 |
| 2000s | 8,549 | #294 (2006) | #358 |
| 2010s | 4,745 | #370 (2010) | #596 |
| 2020s | 1,827 | #718 (2024) | #815 |
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.
Brayan in 1993
Top boys' names in 1993
More about 1993
boys
1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 31,634 of them was named Brayan, which outranked 85.3% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,472Parris63
- #1,472Shlomo63
- #1,472Sky63
- #1,493Brayan62
- #1,493Angus62
- #1,493Baron62
- #1,493Coltin62
- #1,512Ajay61
- #1,512Benedict61
- #1,512Bijan61
Tied with 18 names at #1,493; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.