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Brasen vs Brayden

American parents have registered 137,606 Braydens since 1880, against 209 Brasens. Brayden is still ahead, with 1,545 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Brasen against Brayden, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Brasen Brayden

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Brayden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Brasen had 16 and Brayden had 2,600.

Side by side

  Brasen Brayden
Total US births 209137,606
Most in one year 319,168
Babies in 2025 under 51,545
Estimated living today 210136,000
Median age today 1414
Peak year 20052010
Best rank 3,241st boys40th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked229th
First recorded 20041970
Girls / boys 0 / 2091,058 / 136,548

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Brasen and Brayden.