girls:
230 births since 1988
#5486 (4th percentile)
boys:
13.5k births since 1973
#996 (78th percentile)
overall:
13.8k births since 1973
#2229 (71st percentile)
The name Braeden is the #2,229 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,778 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 71.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #996 (78.3% percentile) for all time with 13,548 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,486 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 230 births since 1988.
Braeden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1988 for girls). Birth data for Braeden is available in 46 out of the 51 years between 1973 and 2023 (46 years for boys and 19 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 Braeden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Braeden reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 64.7% percentile (ranked #309) with 472 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 472 births per million (ranked 64.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Braeden ranks #869 for boys (4.6% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 5.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Braeden reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #918) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Braeden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Braeden is pronounced as BRAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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