girls:
1k births since 1993
#4669 (18th percentile)
boys:
133k births since 1970
#249 (95th percentile)
overall:
134.1k births since 1970
#553 (93rd percentile)
The name Brayden is the #553 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 134,061 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 92.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #249 (94.6% percentile) for all time with 133,014 births since 1970. For girls, it ranks #4,669 (18.3% percentile) for all time with 1,047 births since 1993.
Brayden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for boys and 1993 for girls). Birth data for Brayden is available in 50 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (50 years for boys and 31 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 Brayden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brayden reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 96.0% percentile (ranked #36) with 4,441 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 4,441 births per million (ranked 96.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brayden ranks #157 for boys (82.9% percentile) with 1,242 births per million, which is 28.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brayden reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 7.9% percentile (ranked #863) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 39 births per million (ranked 7.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Brayden ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 13.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brayden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brayden is pronounced as BRAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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