Braylen
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · #725 for boys in 2025, 366 births
Given to boys 94.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 1,011 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 13,251since 1991
Braylen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #4,546 | 30 | #725 | 366 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #665 | 412 |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 | #575 | 509 |
| 2022 | #3,765 | 40 | #545 | 543 |
| 2021 | #2,674 | 64 | #463 | 646 |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 | #501 | 582 |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 | #500 | 571 |
| 2018 | #4,458 | 31 | #466 | 622 |
| 2017 | #3,436 | 45 | #430 | 719 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 | #438 | 703 |
| 2015 | #3,595 | 43 | #414 | 753 |
| 2014 | #3,778 | 40 | #407 | 759 |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 | #361 | 871 |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 | #327 | 965 |
| 2011 | #3,603 | 43 | #316 | 1,011 |
| 2010 | #3,689 | 42 | #368 | 798 |
| 2009 | #3,677 | 43 | #412 | 714 |
| 2008 | #4,761 | 31 | #573 | 449 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #696 | 337 |
| 2006 | #5,545 | 24 | #763 | 276 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #834 | 222 |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 | #1,359 | 107 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #2,077 | 54 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #1,974 | 56 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #2,520 | 38 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #2,330 | 41 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #2,722 | 31 |
| 1998 | — | #4,019 | 17 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,059 | 16 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,406 | 20 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | — | #5,771 | 9 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Braylen! It came in at #8,236, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Braylen is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#97 · 1 in 353
- Alabama#107 · 1 in 420
- Georgia#182 · 1 in 775
- South Carolina#185 · 1 in 795
- North Carolina#200 · 1 in 848
Best ever in a state: #70 in Mississippi, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #97 | 39 | 1 in 353 |
| Alabama | #107 | 55 | 1 in 420 |
| Georgia | #182 | 71 | 1 in 775 |
| South Carolina | #185 | 27 | 1 in 795 |
| North Carolina | #200 | 61 | 1 in 848 |
| Tennessee | #202 | 41 | 1 in 885 |
| West Virginia | #221 | 9 | 1 in 900 |
| Louisiana | #222 | 27 | 1 in 934 |
| Kentucky | #229 | 22 | 1 in 1,013 |
| Arkansas | #236 | 16 | 1 in 912 |
| Ohio | #250 | 51 | 1 in 1,182 |
| Michigan | #280 | 35 | 1 in 1,396 |
| Virginia | #320 | 26 | 1 in 1,627 |
| Maryland | #360 | 14 | 1 in 2,016 |
| Indiana | #363 | 19 | 1 in 1,903 |
| Missouri | #399 | 15 | 1 in 2,157 |
| Wisconsin | #417 | 12 | 1 in 2,284 |
| Nebraska | #434 | 5 | 1 in 2,074 |
| Florida | #474 | 33 | 1 in 2,909 |
| Texas | #499 | 60 | 1 in 3,109 |
| Illinois | #548 | 19 | 1 in 3,495 |
| Washington | #650 | 9 | 1 in 4,034 |
| Pennsylvania | #653 | 12 | 1 in 5,065 |
| Colorado | #697 | 6 | 1 in 4,549 |
| New Jersey | #775 | 7 | 1 in 5,991 |
| Arizona | #888 | 5 | 1 in 7,517 |
| California | #1,050 | 20 | 1 in 11,565 |
| New York | #1,062 | 11 | 1 in 9,340 |
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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 Braylen
- 60 spots since 2024 (#665 → #725)
- 224 spots since 2020 (#501 → #725)
- 311 spots since 2015 (#414 → #725)
- Biggest jump: 525 spots in 2005 (#1,359 → #834)
- Biggest drop: 90 spots in 2024 (#575 → #665)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2011 at #316 (1,011 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2005–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,879 boys born in 2011 were named Braylen (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,667 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 58.7% of all boys named Braylen (7,772) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 127 | #2,722 (1999) | #5,069 |
| 2000s | 2,294 | #412 (2009) | #1,354 |
| 2010s | 7,772 | #316 (2011) | #403 |
| 2020s | 3,058 | #463 (2021) | #579 |
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.
Braylen in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 44,659 of them was named Braylen, which outranked 80.4% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,719Wisdom41
- #3,719Xylia41
- #3,719Yatziry41
- #3,778Braylen40
- #3,778Aalyiah40
- #3,778Aashvi40
- #3,778Airam40
- #3,848Aalia39
- #3,848Adalyne39
- #3,848Ahtziri39
Tied with 69 names at #3,778; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 2,531 of them was named Braylen, which outranked 97.1% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).