Braylon
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #848 for boys in 2025, 289 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 1,695 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 18,796since 1981
Braylon over time
Rank among boys' names. Braylon 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #848 | 289 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #732 | 359 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #634 | 437 |
| 2022 | — | #582 | 491 | |
| 2021 | — | #479 | 624 | |
| 2020 | — | #537 | 526 | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #613 | 446 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #554 | 499 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #474 | 629 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #425 | 738 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | #392 | 813 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #377 | 833 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #317 | 1,049 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #278 | 1,253 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #234 | 1,532 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #237 | 1,473 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #218 | 1,695 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | #254 | 1,388 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #376 | 818 |
| 2006 | — | #400 | 753 | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #360 | 818 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #705 | 272 |
| 2003 | — | #1,012 | 156 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,184 | 118 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,472 | 83 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,314 | 98 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,457 | 79 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,488 | 74 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,550 | 66 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,671 | 57 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,736 | 51 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,868 | 45 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,050 | 39 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,303 | 32 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,798 | 44 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,628 | 25 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,509 | 23 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,959 | 11 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Braylon! It came in at #4,509, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1986, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Braylon is popular in 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#166 · 1 in 684
- Louisiana#174 · 1 in 796
- Michigan#316 · 1 in 2,079
- Ohio#406 · 1 in 3,333
- Texas#409 · 1 in 2,714
Best ever in a state: #53 in Mississippi, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #166 | 22 | 1 in 684 |
| Louisiana | #174 | 32 | 1 in 796 |
| Michigan | #316 | 27 | 1 in 2,079 |
| Ohio | #406 | 20 | 1 in 3,333 |
| Texas | #409 | 66 | 1 in 2,714 |
| Mississippi | #437 | 6 | 1 in 2,489 |
| Indiana | #476 | 11 | 1 in 3,523 |
| Alabama | #500 | 7 | 1 in 3,361 |
| Oklahoma | #576 | 5 | 1 in 4,135 |
| South Carolina | #606 | 5 | 1 in 4,191 |
| Tennessee | #656 | 6 | 1 in 5,987 |
| North Carolina | #685 | 8 | 1 in 6,370 |
| Georgia | #891 | 7 | 1 in 8,332 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,011 | 5 | 1 in 12,685 |
| California | #2,322 | 5 | 1 in 50,425 |
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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 Braylon
- 116 spots since 2024 (#732 → #848)
- 311 spots since 2020 (#537 → #848)
- 456 spots since 2015 (#392 → #848)
- Biggest jump: 345 spots in 2005 (#705 → #360)
- Biggest drop: 116 spots in 2025 (#732 → #848)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2009 at #218 (1,695 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2004–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,170 boys born in 2009 were named Braylon (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,910 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 49.3% of all boys named Braylon (9,265) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 94 | #2,509 (1988) | #4,695 |
| 1990s | 512 | #1,457 (1999) | #1,855 |
| 2000s | 6,199 | #218 (2009) | #730 |
| 2010s | 9,265 | #234 (2011) | #390 |
| 2020s | 2,726 | #479 (2021) | #635 |
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.
Braylon in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 306,042 of them was named Braylon, which outranked 24.7% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,761Zynia7
- #12,761Zyniah7
- #12,761Zyra7
- #14,179Braylon6
- #14,179Aaliha6
- #14,179Aalijah6
- #14,179Aalisha6
- #16,099Aafreen5
- #16,099Aajah5
- #16,099Aala5
Tied with 1,919 names at #14,179; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 7,298 of them was named Braylon, which outranked 94.7% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).