Braylen
Braylen is ranked 665th among boys in 2024 (411 births). Its best rank was 316th, in 2011.
- Rank in 2024
- #665down 90 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4110.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 20111,011 births
- Best rank
- #316in 2011
- Since 1991
- 13,657people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,880 boys have been named Braylen in the United States since 1991, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 1,011 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 407 → 665).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 60%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 777 girls have also been given it, 5.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2011, its biggest year
Braylen was the 316th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2011 were Jacob, Mason, William, Jayden and Noah. See all of 2011.
Names that rose and fell with Braylen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Syluspeak 2013
- Rylenpeak 2011
- Kaidynpeak 2014
- Laydenpeak 2012
- Avanpeak 2012
- Rhyderpeak 2013
- Jadielpeak 2011
- Colstonpeak 2010
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.