Braden

At the 2020 census, 12,547 Americans bore the surname Braden — 2,798th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,800.

By the numbers

People: 12,547
Rank: 2,798th
How common: 1 in 23,800
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicised from an Irish surname Ó Bradáin (“descendant of Bradán”), from a personal name meaning "salmon, " from bradán (“salmon”).

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Braden described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.9%
Black, not Hispanic 9.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Braden

Dallas Braden (born 1983)former American Pitcher

People named Braden with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Braden

Also a first name

Braden has been given to 46,512 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 2005. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.