How Many People Are Named Braiden?

7,690

people named Braiden are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 44,445 people in the US has this name

Based on 7,789 babies named Braiden in Social Security records from 1984 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,885

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,118

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Peak Year

2010

567 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: BRAY-dΙ™n
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of BRADEN.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Braiden in English. Counting Braiden and these spellings together, about 202,932 people alive in the US have the name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
2.0%
Male
98.1%

Of the babies given the name Braiden, 2% were girls and 98.1% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1990s: 7.6% of the babies were girls then and 0% in the 2020s.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Braiden alive today is about 16 years old, and 96% are under 30. Half of them were between 12 and 20 in 2025.

Under 30 7,395
96.2%
30 to 59 295
3.8%
60 and over 0
0%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Braiden first appears in the records in 1984 and was given most often in 2010, to 567 babies. In 2025, 44 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1984 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Braiden has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #468, in 2010. In 2025 it ranked #2,841.

Boys
Rank in 2025#2,841
Best rank#468 (2010)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#630 in the 2000s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Braiden alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Braiden were born in Texas than in any other state: about 561 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Braiden was given 3.1 times as often in West Virginia, 2.9 times in Utah and 2.5 times in Oklahoma.

Texas 561
Ohio 388
California 366
Indiana 309
Florida 245
Tennessee 240
Pennsylvania 239
Utah 215
Michigan 211
Missouri 207
Illinois 206
Washington 193
Georgia 192
New York 191
Oklahoma 176
North Carolina 160
Kentucky 151
Louisiana 137
Arizona 130
Alabama 126
Arkansas 124
Colorado 115
Oregon 111
Virginia 110
Wisconsin 101
Mississippi 99
West Virginia 93
Kansas 91
South Carolina 78
Minnesota 74
Iowa 60
Maryland 55
Massachusetts 52
Idaho 50
Nebraska 29
New Mexico 26
New Jersey 22
Hawaii 16
Nevada 14
South Dakota 10
Delaware 6
Maine 5
North Dakota 5
Montana 5

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