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Braeden

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Braeden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 58 births. Its best rank was 322nd, in 2005.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
580.00% of boys
Peak year
20051,004 births
Best rank
#322in 2005
Since 1973
13,607people given the name
Babies named Braeden, by year of birthboys
05001k1.5k2k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

13,607 boys have been named Braeden in the United States since 1973, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 1,004 births.

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 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 62%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Braeden
1970s10
1980s120
1990s1,525
2000s8,403
2010s3,200
2020s349

In 2005, its biggest year

Braeden was the 322nd 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 Braeden

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.