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Brayan

#768 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Brian

Brayan has been given to 16,558 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #768 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 1,151 recorded.

Babies named Brayan, 2025

1 in 9,930

Brayan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brayan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Brian

English

What Brayan means

Brayan is a form of Brian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Brayan → Brian. The family’s proposed meaning is “hill, high or might, power”, recorded in the naming reference for Brian.

Origin, language, and formation

Brayan is used in Azerbaijani and Spanish. Its origins include English.

Brayan is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Brian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Brayan is pronounced /ˈbɾaʝan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16,540 boys were recorded with the name Brayan between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,151 in 2006; its best national rank was #294 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #858 in 2020 to #768 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #596 in 2015 to #768 in 2025.

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Brayan between 2001 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2007; its best national rank was #13,766 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 Brayan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,930
334 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,110
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#768
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,881 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brayan 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,881 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brayan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brayans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brayan was born before 2008 — so the typical Brayan is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
51.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16,540
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 51.7% of all recorded uses (8,549).

Is Brayan 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
−50
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+90
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−172
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.0%
Peak was 2006 (1,151)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#294
2006

Spellings of Brayan

Brayan is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 40.0% against Brayan's 0.56%.

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 Brayan is used

Across 2016–2025, Brayan was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 2,381 boys, against 1 in 5,380 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

242 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 2,381
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 2,500
  3. 3Maryland1 in 3,226
  4. 4California1 in 3,571
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 3,704
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 3,704
  7. 7Florida1 in 3,846
  8. 8Texas1 in 3,846

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.

Geographically, Brayan is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 81% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Brayan around the world

Where Brayan 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
    2006–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2009–2010
    #611
    in 2010
  • France
    1986–2025
    #850
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2023
    #2,931
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Brayan

People whose public names include Brayan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Brayan in other languages

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

BrianBraianBrajan

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

Brayan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#768
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 90
Best rank ever
#294
2006
Peak year
2006
1,151 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
16,540
Count in 2025
334

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,766
2001
Peak year
2007
7 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Brayan

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

BradlyBraylonBraydonBraedenBraylenBrandtBradenBradynBrandenBrantBransonBraidenBrandanBraulioBrandyBrandynBrannonBrandoBradonBraxtonBrantleyBradfordBraedonBradlee

Names with a curve like Brayan

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

YahirMekhiJadonDavionBraedenJaydonCamrenJaylenRohanAdenKeaganBrodie

Sibling names for Brayan

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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