Brayson
Brayson is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 89 births. Its best rank was 954th, in 2017.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 890.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2017218 births
- Best rank
- #954in 2017
- Since 1994
- 3,101people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,101 boys have been named Brayson in the United States since 1994, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 218 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 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 61%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2017, its biggest year
Brayson was the 954th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Brayson
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rydenpeak 2019
- Anaypeak 2017
- Camdynpeak 2016
- Kamdenpeak 2013
- Gunnerpeak 2015
- Strykerpeak 2014
- Maxtonpeak 2017
- Brysenpeak 2017
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.