girls:
152 births since 1993
#5564 (3rd percentile)
boys:
7.5k births since 1984
#1362 (70th percentile)
overall:
7.7k births since 1984
#3078 (60th percentile)
The name Braiden is the #3,078 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,685 recorded births since 1984. This represents the 60.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,362 (70.3% percentile) for all time with 7,533 births since 1984. For girls, it ranks #5,564 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 152 births since 1993.
Braiden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1984 (1984 for boys and 1993 for girls).
The name Braiden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Braiden reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 52.1% percentile (ranked #422) with 271 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 271 births per million (ranked 52.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Braiden ranks #852 for boys (6.5% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 12.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Braiden reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #889) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Braiden".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Braiden. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.9% confident that Braiden is pronounced as BRAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BRAY-dihn, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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