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Braylon

#848 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Braylen

Braylon has been given to 18,959 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #848 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 1,695 recorded.

Babies named Braylon, 2025

1 in 11,500

Braylon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K2K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Braylon: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Braylen

coinages

What Braylon means

Braylon is a variant of Braylen.

Origin, language, and formation

Braylon is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Braylon is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Braylen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18,796 boys were recorded with the name Braylon between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,695 in 2009; its best national rank was #218 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #537 in 2020 to #848 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #392 in 2015 to #848 in 2025.

In the United States, 163 girls were recorded with the name Braylon between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2008; its best national rank was #7,685 in 2015.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,685 in 2015 to #15,322 in 2025.

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 Braylon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,500
289 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,910
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#848
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,952 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Braylon 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,952 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Braylon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Braylons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Braylon was born before 2011 — so the typical Braylon is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
18,796
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.3% of all recorded uses (9,265).

Is Braylon 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
−116
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−311
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−456
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.1%
Peak was 2009 (1,695)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#218
2009

Spellings of Braylon

Braylon is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 54.0% against Braylon's 1.3%.

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 Braylon is used

Across 2016–2025, Braylon was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 649 boys, against 1 in 3,099 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

2154 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 649
  2. 2Alabama1 in 781
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 901
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 1,163
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 1,282
  6. 6Georgia1 in 1,333
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 1,471
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 1,538

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, Braylon is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 94% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Braylon around the world

Where Braylon 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
    2013–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • France
    2022–2022
    #5,531
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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 Braylon

People whose public names include Braylon, 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.

Braylon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#848
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 311
Best rank ever
#218
2009
Peak year
2009
1,695 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
18,796
Count in 2025
289

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,322
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,685
2015
Peak year
2008
16 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
163
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Braylon

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

BraelonBraydonBraedenBraylenBrandenBransonBrayanBraidenBrandanBraxtonBrantleyBradfordBraulioBrandynBrannonBradlyBraedonBradenBradleeBraysonBraylinBrandtBrandinBrayden

Names with a curve like Braylon

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

CaidenLandynRylanJaidenCaydenAdenLandenAmareBrycenAidynIzaiahLondon

Sibling names for Braylon

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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