Braden
Braden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 158 births. Its best rank was 133rd, in 2005.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1580.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 20053,046 births
- Best rank
- #133in 2005
- Since 1916
- 46,050people given the name
The story in the numbers
46,050 boys have been named Braden in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 3,046 births — 0.15% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 52%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Braden | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | |
| 1920s | 19 | |
| 1930s | 22 | |
| 1940s | 44 | |
| 1950s | 156 | |
| 1960s | 272 | |
| 1970s | 814 | |
| 1980s | 2,344 | |
| 1990s | 8,389 | |
| 2000s | 24,071 | |
| 2010s | 8,782 | |
| 2020s | 1,131 |
In 2005, its biggest year
Braden was the 133rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2005 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Braden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Donavinpeak 2005
- Camronpeak 2003
- Daveonpeak 2007
- Trentenpeak 2007
- Braedonpeak 2006
- Domanicpeak 2007
- Eathanpeak 2006
- Gavenpeak 2003
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.