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Brayson

#2,397 in 2025Boys' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Brayson has been given to 3,161 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #2,397 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 218 recorded.

Babies named Brayson, 2025

1 in 58,200

Brayson over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brayson: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brayson means

Brayson is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Brayson is used in English.

Brayson is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,161 boys were recorded with the name Brayson between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 218 in 2017; its best national rank was #955 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,216 in 2020 to #2,397 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,058 in 2015 to #2,397 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 Brayson?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 58,200
57 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 30,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,397
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
40,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brayson 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 40,315 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brayson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Braysons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brayson was born before 2015 — so the typical Brayson is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
60.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,161
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (1,897).

Is Brayson 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
−601
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,181
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,339
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.1%
Peak was 2017 (218)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#955
2017

Spellings of Brayson

Brayson is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 52.0% against Brayson's 0.21%.

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 Brayson is used

Across 2016–2025, Brayson was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 3,448 boys, against 1 in 13,899 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in 100,000).

129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 3,448
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 5,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 6,667
  4. 4Alabama1 in 7,692
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 7,692
  6. 6Michigan1 in 8,333
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 8,333
  8. 8Georgia1 in 10,000

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.

Brayson around the world

Where Brayson 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
    2013–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    2018–2018
    #6,763
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Brayson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,397
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,181
Best rank ever
#955
2017
Peak year
2017
218 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,161
Count in 2025
57

Names similar to Brayson

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

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Names with a curve like Brayson

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

AarushCamdynKarsenRylenKaidynDeklanKorbynMaxtonCristianoKamdynMaksimAston

Sibling names for Brayson

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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