Braxtyn
#1,906 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Braxtyn has been given to 2,446 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #1,906 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 137 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% boys, 14% girls all-time.
Babies named Braxtyn, 2025
1 in 40,400
Braxtyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Braxtyn over time
In 2025, Braxtyn went to 8% girls and 92% 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 Braxtyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 40,400
- 82 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 20,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,906
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 28,024 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Braxtyn 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 28,024 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Braxtyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Braxtyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Braxtyn was born before 2016 — so the typical Braxtyn is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 56.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,095
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 56.2% of all recorded uses (1,177).
Is Braxtyn 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
- −195
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −531
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −478
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.68×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 59.9%
- Peak was 2017 (137)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.2% average annual change
Spellings of Braxtyn
Braxtyn is not the most common spelling — Braxton is, with 67.1% against Braxtyn's 2.1%.
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 Braxtyn is used
Across 2016–2025, Braxtyn was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 17,567 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).
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.
Braxtyn around the world
Where Braxtyn 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.
- Canada2014–2023#2,747in 2023
- South Australia2009–2013#499in 2013
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Braxtyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Braxtyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Braxtyn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Braxtyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Braxtyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.