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Braiden

#2,841 in 2025Boys' name

Descendant of Bradán, through Braden

Braiden has been given to 7,789 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #2,841 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 563 recorded.

Babies named Braiden, 2025

1 in 75,300

Braiden over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Braiden: meaning, origin, and history

Descendant of Bradán, through Braden

surname transfer

What Braiden means

Braiden belongs to the name family reached through Braiden → Braden. Its meaning is “descendant of Bradán”.

Origin, language, and formation

Braiden is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Braiden is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Braden.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,637 boys were recorded with the name Braiden between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 563 in 2009; its best national rank was #468 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,347 in 2020 to #2,841 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #902 in 2015 to #2,841 in 2025.

In the United States, 152 girls were recorded with the name Braiden between 1993 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2001; its best national rank was #7,366 in 2001.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Braiden?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,841
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Braiden sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Braiden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Braidens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Braiden was born before 2009 — so the typical Braiden is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,637
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (3,505).

Is Braiden 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
−446
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,494
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,939
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.18×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.8%
Peak was 2009 (563)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#468
2010

Spellings of Braiden

Braiden is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 50.7% against Braiden's 0.50%.

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 Braiden is used

Across 2016–2025, Braiden was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 18,485 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

214 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 7,143
  2. 2Alabama1 in 8,333
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 8,333
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 8,333
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 8,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 12,500
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 12,500
  8. 8Georgia1 in 14,286

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.

Braiden around the world

Where Braiden 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 & Wales
    1997–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2006–2018
    #704
    in 2018
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2021
    #433
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1987–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Braiden in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Braiden. Linked forms have their own page here.

Brayden

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Braiden by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,841
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,494
Best rank ever
#468
2010
Peak year
2009
563 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,637
Count in 2025
44

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,366
2001
Peak year
2001
14 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
152
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Braiden

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BraedenBrandenBradenBraydenBransonBrandanBraulioBrandynBrannonBraylenBraydonBraedonBradleeBraysonBraylinBraylonBradlyBrandtBrandinBraytonBraxdenBraedynBradynBraxtyn

Names with a curve like Braiden

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Braiden, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KeaganJamarionCamrenGavynAlexzanderAydanJavionGiovannyXzavierJordynAdityaTeagan

Sibling names for Braiden

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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