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Braydon

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Braydon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 107 births. Its best rank was 311th, in 2009.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1070.01% of boys
Peak year
20091,034 births
Best rank
#311in 2009
Since 1977
14,222people given the name
Babies named Braydon, by year of birthboys
05001k1.5k2k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

14,222 boys have been named Braydon in the United States since 1977, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 1,034 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2000s alone account for 47%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Braydon
1970s5
1980s131
1990s1,383
2000s6,686
2010s5,273
2020s744

In 2009, its biggest year

Braydon was the 311th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.

Names that rose and fell with Braydon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.