girls:
18 births since 2001
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
15.8k births since 1979
#925 (80th percentile)
overall:
15.8k births since 1979
#2066 (73rd percentile)
The name Brayan is the #2,066 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,849 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 73.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #925 (79.8% percentile) for all time with 15,831 births since 1979. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 2001.
Brayan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for boys and 2001 for girls). Birth data for Brayan is available in 42 out of the 45 years between 1979 and 2023 (42 years for boys and 3 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 Brayan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brayan reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 67.3% percentile (ranked #287) with 525 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 525 births per million (ranked 67.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brayan ranks #640 for boys (29.8% percentile) with 154 births per million, which is 29.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brayan reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #985) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% 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 "Brayan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Brayan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.5% confident that Brayan is pronounced as BRAI-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BRAY-uhn, at 37.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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