Braydon
Last seen for girls in 2011 at #13,347 · #1,778 for boys in 2025, 90 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 1,035 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 14,315since 1977
Braydon over time
Rank among boys' names. Braydon 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 | — | #1,778 | 90 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,599 | 107 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,420 | 128 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,379 | 135 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,103 | 189 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,074 | 186 | |
| 2019 | — | #974 | 220 | |
| 2018 | — | #855 | 258 | |
| 2017 | — | #713 | 342 | |
| 2016 | — | #672 | 384 | |
| 2015 | — | #572 | 491 | |
| 2014 | — | #525 | 528 | |
| 2013 | — | #472 | 588 | |
| 2012 | — | #397 | 734 | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #369 | 805 |
| 2010 | — | #341 | 924 | |
| 2009 | — | #311 | 1,035 | |
| 2008 | — | #324 | 1,022 | |
| 2007 | — | #364 | 870 | |
| 2006 | — | #397 | 758 | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #385 | 752 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #414 | 629 |
| 2003 | — | #516 | 467 | |
| 2002 | — | #516 | 439 | |
| 2001 | — | #592 | 338 | |
| 2000 | — | #558 | 377 | |
| 1999 | — | #578 | 337 | |
| 1998 | — | #630 | 288 | |
| 1997 | — | #832 | 174 | |
| 1996 | — | #893 | 151 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,005 | 122 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,200 | 92 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,205 | 87 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,382 | 67 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,019 | 37 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,432 | 28 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,359 | 28 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,989 | 32 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,521 | 13 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,131 | 15 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,701 | 11 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Braydon! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Braydon is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#175 · 1 in 642
- Mississippi#209 · 1 in 897
- Kentucky#216 · 1 in 964
- Arkansas#223 · 1 in 892
- South Carolina#230 · 1 in 1,162
Best ever in a state: #106 in Wyoming, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #175 | 13 | 1 in 642 |
| Mississippi | #209 | 15 | 1 in 897 |
| Kentucky | #216 | 23 | 1 in 964 |
| Arkansas | #223 | 16 | 1 in 892 |
| South Carolina | #230 | 18 | 1 in 1,162 |
| Tennessee | #235 | 32 | 1 in 1,119 |
| North Carolina | #265 | 39 | 1 in 1,296 |
| Missouri | #270 | 25 | 1 in 1,270 |
| Alabama | #274 | 17 | 1 in 1,306 |
| Pennsylvania | #276 | 38 | 1 in 1,585 |
| Indiana | #280 | 28 | 1 in 1,274 |
| Ohio | #322 | 31 | 1 in 1,928 |
| Louisiana | #325 | 16 | 1 in 1,511 |
| Oregon | #337 | 12 | 1 in 1,506 |
| Georgia | #342 | 30 | 1 in 1,800 |
| Kansas | #352 | 10 | 1 in 1,609 |
| Iowa | #357 | 9 | 1 in 1,680 |
| Michigan | #362 | 23 | 1 in 2,071 |
| Oklahoma | #368 | 12 | 1 in 1,688 |
| Connecticut | #374 | 6 | 1 in 2,393 |
| Colorado | #385 | 14 | 1 in 1,939 |
| Minnesota | #420 | 11 | 1 in 2,518 |
| Wisconsin | #420 | 11 | 1 in 2,481 |
| Nevada | #426 | 6 | 1 in 2,214 |
| Florida | #446 | 33 | 1 in 2,787 |
| Texas | #452 | 62 | 1 in 2,865 |
| New Jersey | #453 | 14 | 1 in 2,962 |
| Massachusetts | #470 | 9 | 1 in 3,295 |
| Utah | #552 | 7 | 1 in 3,094 |
| California | #560 | 52 | 1 in 4,433 |
| Illinois | #561 | 18 | 1 in 3,695 |
| Washington | #580 | 10 | 1 in 3,592 |
| Virginia | #589 | 10 | 1 in 4,182 |
| Arizona | #601 | 9 | 1 in 4,110 |
| New York | #606 | 24 | 1 in 4,346 |
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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 Braydon
- 179 spots since 2024 (#1,599 → #1,778)
- 704 spots since 2020 (#1,074 → #1,778)
- 1,206 spots since 2015 (#572 → #1,778)
- Biggest jump: 202 spots in 1998 (#832 → #630)
- Biggest drop: 142 spots in 2018 (#713 → #855)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2009 at #311 (1,035 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 1996–2019
- Highest: 1 in 1,916 boys born in 2009 were named Braydon (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,979 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 46.7% of all boys named Braydon (6,687) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,845 (1977) | #5,845 |
| 1980s | 131 | #1,989 (1988) | #4,259 |
| 1990s | 1,383 | #578 (1999) | #1,218 |
| 2000s | 6,687 | #311 (2009) | #438 |
| 2010s | 5,274 | #341 (2010) | #589 |
| 2020s | 835 | #1,074 (2020) | #1,392 |
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.
Braydon in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 2,584 of them was named Braydon, which outranked 97.2% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.