boys:
3k births since 1994
#2284 (50th percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1994
#4947 (36th percentile)
The name Brayson is the #4,947 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,012 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 36.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,284 (50.2% percentile) for all time with 3,012 births since 1994.
Brayson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (first recorded for boys in 1994).
For boys, Brayson reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 23.3% percentile (ranked #701) with 110 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 110 births per million (ranked 23.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brayson ranks #840 for boys (7.8% percentile) with 42 births per million, which is 37.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brayson".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brayson is pronounced as BRAY-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
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