girls:
277 births since 1975
#5439 (5th percentile)
boys:
45.9k births since 1916
#527 (89th percentile)
overall:
46.2k births since 1916
#1135 (85th percentile)
The name Braden is the #1,135 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 46,168 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 85.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #527 (88.5% percentile) for all time with 45,891 births since 1916. For girls, it ranks #5,439 (4.8% percentile) for all time with 277 births since 1975.
Braden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Braden is available in 87 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (87 years for boys and 24 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Braden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Braden reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 84.9% percentile (ranked #133) with 1,432 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 1,432 births per million (ranked 84.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Braden ranks #729 for boys (20.0% percentile) with 102 births per million, which is 7.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Braden reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #875) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Braden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Braden is pronounced as BRAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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