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Braulio vs Brayden

American parents have registered 137,606 Braydens since 1880, against 5,135 Braulios. Brayden is still ahead, with 1,545 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Braulio 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

Of the 103 years in which either name was published, Braulio for 66 years and Brayden for 37 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Braulio Brayden
Total US births 5,135137,606
Most in one year 2489,168
Babies in 2025 681,545
Estimated living today 4,800136,000
Median age today 2114
Peak year 20052010
Best rank 784th boys40th boys
Rank in 2025 2,125th229th
First recorded 19151970
Girls / boys 0 / 5,1351,058 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Braulios alive today are over 21; half the Braydens are over 14. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Braulio Brayden
England and Wales 31,822

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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