Braedyn
#5,421 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Braedyn has been given to 2,590 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #5,421 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 181 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.
Babies named Braedyn, 2025
1 in 195,000
Braedyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Braedyn over time
In 2025, Braedyn went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Braedyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 100,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,421
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Braedyn 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Braedyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Braedyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Braedyn was born before 2010 — so the typical Braedyn is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 46.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,299
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (1,068).
Is Braedyn 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
- −157
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,342
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,631
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.20×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 9.4%
- Peak was 2010 (181)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.4% average annual change
Spellings of Braedyn
Braedyn is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 66.5% against Braedyn's 0.20%.
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 Braedyn is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Braedyn was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 145,101 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
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. Braedyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Braedyn is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Braedyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Braedyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Braedyn around the world
Where Braedyn 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 & Wales2005–2025#5,137in 2025
- Canada1995–2016#2,441in 2016
- South Australia1973–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Braedyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Braedyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Braedyn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Braedyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Braedyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.