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Brayton

#3,963 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Brayton has been given to 2,528 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #3,963 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Brayton, 2025

1 in 123,000

Brayton over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brayton: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brayton means

Brayton is a given name.

The naming story behind Brayton

Wikidata records Brayton as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q88542499, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,506 boys were recorded with the name Brayton between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 2012; its best national rank was #1,276 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,512 in 2020 to #3,963 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,830 in 2015 to #3,963 in 2025.

In the United States, 22 girls were recorded with the name Brayton between 1994 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1996; its best national rank was #12,030 in 1996.

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.

How common is Brayton?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,963
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brayton 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brayton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Braytons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brayton was born before 2006 — so the typical Brayton is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,472
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (812).

Is Brayton 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
+372
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,451
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,133
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.5%
Peak was 2012 (106)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,276
1996

Spellings of Brayton

Brayton is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 48.9% against Brayton's 0.16%.

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 Brayton is used

Across 1910–2025, Brayton was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 127,554 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 12,500
  2. 2Iowa1 in 16,667
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Missouri1 in 100,000
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in —
  8. 8California1 in —

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. Brayton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brayton around the world

Where Brayton 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.

  • France
    1998–2025
    #2,426
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1976–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

People whose public names include Brayton, 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.

Brayton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,963
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,451
Best rank ever
#1,276
1996
Peak year
2012
106 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,506
Count in 2025
27

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,030
1996
Peak year
1996
6 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Brayton

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

BrantonBraxstonBraxtonBraxxtonBraedynBrandinBraxtynBraylinBraysonBraxtenBradleeBraedonBraelynBrannonBraylanBrandynBraulioBraydanBrantleeBrandanBraydinBrandyBrandoBradon

Names with a curve like Brayton

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

KollinTyrenColtinAshwinYonatanKamilKhristianDaylanQuinlanIzaakCaelanWillem

Sibling names for Brayton

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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