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Braydon

#1,778 in 2025Boys' name

Descendant of Bradán, through Braden

Braydon has been given to 14,338 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #1,778 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 1,035 recorded.

Babies named Braydon, 2025

1 in 36,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Braydon: meaning, origin, and history

Descendant of Bradán, through Braden

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Braydon means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Braydon is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Braden.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,315 boys were recorded with the name Braydon between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,035 in 2009; its best national rank was #311 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,074 in 2020 to #1,778 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #572 in 2015 to #1,778 in 2025.

In the United States, 23 girls were recorded with the name Braydon between 2004 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2004; its best national rank was #10,822 in 2004.

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 Braydon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,800
90 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 19,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,778
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
25,533 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Braydon 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 25,533 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Braydon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Braydons were born

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

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14,315
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (6,687).

Is Braydon 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
−178
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−704
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,206
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.18×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.7%
Peak was 2009 (1,035)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#311
2009

Spellings of Braydon

Braydon is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 51.5% against Braydon's 0.96%.

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 Braydon is used

Across 2016–2025, Braydon was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 4,000 boys, against 1 in 9,252 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in 33,333).

325 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 4,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 4,348
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 5,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 5,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 5,263
  6. 6Georgia1 in 5,882
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 5,882
  8. 8West Virginia1 in 6,250

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.

Braydon around the world

Where Braydon 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
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2021
    #720
    in 2021
  • France
    2011–2013
    #6,416
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #1,368
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1944–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Braydon

People whose public names include Braydon, 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.

Braydon in other languages

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

Braedon

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

Braydon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,778
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 704
Best rank ever
#311
2009
Peak year
2009
1,035 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,315
Count in 2025
90

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,822
2004
Peak year
2004
9 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Braydon

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

BraedonBradonBraedenBraylenBrandonBraylonBransonBraidenBrandenBrayanBrandanBraidonBraulioBrandynBrannonBradlyBradleeBraysonBraylinBraxtonBrantleyBradfordBrendonBrandt

Names with a curve like Braydon

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

KeaganAdenMekhiLandenCamrenYahirTalonGavynAlexzanderJamarionGiovannyAditya

Sibling names for Braydon

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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