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Braylon

The boy's name Braylon has been in the national records since 1981, with 18,959 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 848th. About 19,000 Braylons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Braylon boys named Braylon

By the numbers

Total US births
18,959
Estimated living today
19,000
Median age today
14
Peak year
2009
Best rank
218th
Rank in 2025
848th
First recorded
1981
Girls / boys
163 / 18,796

How old the living Braylons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 18,959 babies given the name since 1981, about 19,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 15,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a coined name

Modern American coinage.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Braylon is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Braylon is most concentrated in Louisiana (3.5×), Arkansas (3.0×), Mississippi (2.8×), Alabama (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2009

The most popular boys’ names the year Braylon peaked:

All the names of 2009

Braylon elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Braylon 69 1,595th
France boys Braylon 5 5,531st
Scotland boys Braylon 3 727th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.