Brayson
#2,390 for boys in 2025, 57 births
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 218 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,161since 1994
Brayson over time
Rank among boys' names. Brayson has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,390 | 57 |
| 2024 | #1,795 | 91 |
| 2023 | #1,999 | 76 |
| 2022 | #1,540 | 116 |
| 2021 | #1,280 | 148 |
| 2020 | #1,215 | 155 |
| 2019 | #1,066 | 191 |
| 2018 | #1,059 | 191 |
| 2017 | #955 | 218 |
| 2016 | #963 | 214 |
| 2015 | #1,057 | 188 |
| 2014 | #981 | 213 |
| 2013 | #1,075 | 174 |
| 2012 | #1,052 | 181 |
| 2011 | #1,071 | 175 |
| 2010 | #1,183 | 152 |
| 2009 | #1,497 | 111 |
| 2008 | #1,708 | 89 |
| 2007 | #1,951 | 72 |
| 2006 | #1,919 | 70 |
| 2005 | #1,772 | 74 |
| 2004 | #2,531 | 43 |
| 2003 | #2,993 | 32 |
| 2002 | #3,095 | 29 |
| 2001 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #5,868 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brayson! It came in at #5,868, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1996, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Brayson is popular in 1994
No state had 5 or more boys named Brayson in 1994, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Brayson
- 595 spots since 2024 (#1,795 → #2,390)
- 1,175 spots since 2020 (#1,215 → #2,390)
- 1,333 spots since 2015 (#1,057 → #2,390)
- Biggest jump: 94 spots in 2014 (#1,075 → #981)
- Biggest drop: 104 spots in 2018 (#955 → #1,059)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2017 at #955 (218 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2016–2017
- Highest: 1 in 8,491 boys born in 2017 were named Brayson (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,966 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 60.0% of all boys named Brayson (1,897) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 63 | #3,877 (1997) | #5,956 |
| 2000s | 558 | #1,497 (2009) | #2,565 |
| 2010s | 1,897 | #955 (2017) | #1,046 |
| 2020s | 643 | #1,215 (2020) | #1,703 |
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.
Brayson in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 214,670 of them was named Brayson, which outranked 42.7% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,452Zedekiah10
- #5,452Zen10
- #5,452Zohaib10
- #5,868Brayson9
- #5,868Aaran9
- #5,868Aarin9
- #5,868Abanoub9
- #6,372Abad8
- #6,372Abdel8
- #6,372Abdoul8
Tied with 503 names at #5,868; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.