Braylan
#4,879 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Braylan has been given to 1,393 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #4,879 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 102 recorded.
Babies named Braylan, 2025
1 in 166,000
Braylan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Braylan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 166,000
- 20 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 85,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,879
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 114,896 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Braylan 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Braylan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Braylans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Braylan was born before 2011 — so the typical Braylan is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 48.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,332
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (648).
Is Braylan 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
- −1,072
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,115
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,764
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.30×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 19.6%
- Peak was 2011 (102)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.3% average annual change
Spellings of Braylan
Braylan is not the most common spelling — Bryan is, with 56.6% against Braylan's 0.19%.
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 Braylan is used
Across 1910–2025, Braylan was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 137,170 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 50,000
- 2Alabama1 in 100,000
- 3Georgia1 in 100,000
- 4Kentucky1 in 100,000
- 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7Ohio1 in 100,000
- 8Tennessee1 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. Braylan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Braylan around the world
Where Braylan 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 & Wales2015–2023#4,992in 2023
- South Australia2004–2004#589in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Braylan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Braylan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Braylan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.