Fun Facts About the Name Braydon
- More than 14 thousand babies named Braydon: U.S. records list 14,335 babies given the name Braydon from 1880 through 2025. Even 23 girls received the name Braydon - about 1 girl for every 622 boys.
What Does the Name Braydon Mean?
Braydon is a modern English given name, usually treated as a respelling of Braden or Brayden. Those names come mainly from an English surname of the habitational type - one taken from a place. The common explanation is Old English brād, "broad," joined to dūn, "hill," giving the literal sense "broad hill." More than one English village has a name built from these elements, and a surname could arise from any of them.
A second derivation belongs to the related form Braden and is Irish rather than English: it can stand for the Gaelic surname Ó Bradáin, from bradán, "salmon." That derivation is separate from the English place-name explanation and belongs to the Irish surname, not to the hill-name. The spelling Braydon adds no meaning of its own; the ay simply spells the vowel sound of the first syllable.
Braydon Name History & Origins
The English surname behind these names belongs to the medieval habitational type: people were commonly identified by the village or manor they came from, so a man of a place called Braden or Braydon might be written as "de Braden," with the preposition later dropped. Braydon is a village and a former royal forest in Wiltshire, in southwestern England, and similar place names occur elsewhere in the country.
As a first name, Braydon developed from the surname in modern times. It stands alongside the related spellings Braden and Brayden, and the ay form matches the usual pronunciation of the first syllable. Its route into use is the surname, not an inherited medieval personal name.
How Popular is the Name Braydon?
Braydon recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2009. Its best rank was #311 in 2009.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | #13,601 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2005 | #13,228 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2004 | #10,828 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,778 | 90 | 0.0053% |
| 2024 | #1,597 | 107 | 0.0062% |
| 2023 | #1,431 | 127 | 0.0074% |
| 2022 | #1,380 | 135 | 0.0077% |
| 2021 | #1,103 | 189 | 0.0108% |
| 2020 | #1,074 | 186 | 0.0108% |
| 2019 | #974 | 220 | 0.0123% |
| 2018 | #855 | 258 | 0.0142% |
| 2017 | #713 | 342 | 0.0185% |
| 2016 | #673 | 383 | 0.0202% |
| 2015 | #572 | 491 | 0.0256% |
| 2014 | #526 | 528 | 0.0275% |
| 2013 | #472 | 588 | 0.0311% |
| 2012 | #397 | 734 | 0.0387% |
| 2011 | #369 | 805 | 0.0424% |
| 2010 | #341 | 924 | 0.0482% |
| 2009 | #311 | 1,034 | 0.0521% |
| 2008 | #324 | 1,022 | 0.0501% |
| 2007 | #364 | 870 | 0.0419% |
| 2006 | #397 | 758 | 0.0369% |
| 2005 | #385 | 752 | 0.0377% |
| 2004 | #414 | 629 | 0.0317% |
| 2003 | #516 | 467 | 0.0236% |
| 2002 | #516 | 439 | 0.0226% |
| 2001 | #592 | 338 | 0.0174% |
| 2000 | #558 | 377 | 0.0192% |
| 1999 | #578 | 337 | 0.0176% |
| 1998 | #630 | 288 | 0.0151% |
| 1997 | #832 | 174 | 0.0092% |
| 1996 | #893 | 151 | 0.0080% |
| 1995 | #1,005 | 122 | 0.0064% |
| 1994 | #1,201 | 92 | 0.0048% |
| 1993 | #1,208 | 87 | 0.0044% |
| 1992 | #1,382 | 67 | 0.0034% |
| 1991 | #2,025 | 37 | 0.0018% |
| 1990 | #2,439 | 28 | 0.0014% |
| 1989 | #2,364 | 28 | 0.0014% |
| 1988 | #1,998 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 1987 | #3,546 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1986 | #3,147 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1985 | #4,081 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1984 | #3,732 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1983 | #6,354 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1982 | #6,482 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1981 | #5,012 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1980 | #6,364 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1977 | #5,941 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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