Bracken
#9,035 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bracken has been given to 618 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #9,035 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 31 recorded.
Babies named Bracken, 2025
1 in 414,000
Bracken over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bracken?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,035
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bracken sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bracken. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brackens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bracken was born before 2001 — so the typical Bracken is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 29.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 53.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 618
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (181).
Is Bracken rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +665
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −187
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 25.8%
- Peak was 1998 (31)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.9% average annual change
Spellings of Bracken
Bracken is not the most common spelling — Brayden is, with 50.0% against Bracken's 0.23%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Bracken is used
Across 1910–2025, Bracken was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 9,606 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 10,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bracken has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bracken around the world
Where Bracken ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2001–2025#5,137in 2025
- Scotland2025–2025#762in 2025
- South Australia1983–2005#643in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bracken by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bracken
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bracken
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.