Brayden

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Brayden: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Brayden: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #59 in 2005, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#59highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1591
1997	#1113
1998	#1263
1999	#973
2000	#1096
2001	#947
2002	#993
2003	#653
2004	#717
2005	#535
2006	#416
2007	#379
2008	#294
2009	#359
2010	#347
2011	#320
2012	#389
2013	#420
2014	#429
2015	#390
2016	#531
2017	#465
2018	#520
2019	#628
2020	#679
2021	#688
2022	#746
2023	#827
2024	#1199

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #339 among boys in Northern Ireland, #382 among boys in Scotland, #472 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1199 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1591 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2007
Highest recorded position: #59 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 2005 (recorded 1997–2007).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Brayden appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,798 births with the name.

Brayden across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Brayden's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1591 (1996)	#294 (2008)	#1199 (2024)	29 of 29	1,798 (1996–2024)	141 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#629 (2007)	#369 (2018)	#676 (2025)	18 of 19	125 (2007–2025)	10 (2018)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#339 (2010)	#215 (2018)	#339 (2024)	8 of 15	38 (2010–2024)	9 (2018)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#90 (1997)	#59 (2005)	#89 (2007)	11 of 11	1,211 (1997–2007)	151 (2005)
New Zealand · Boys	#97 (2001)	#73 (2005)	#73 (2005)	5 of 5	317 (2001–2005)	68 (2005)

Brayden by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Brayden in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	44	4 of 10	11
2000s	587	10 of 10	59
2010sbusiest	960	10 of 10	96
2020s	207	5 of 10	41

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 96 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2007 and 2008, when recorded births rose by 45, from 96 to 141.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Brayden appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #59 in New South Wales, Australia in 2005.

Brayden's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1199	23	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#827	39	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#746	44	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#688	51	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#679	50	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#628	57	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#520	75	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#465	88	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#531	73	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#390	109	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#429	94	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#420	97	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#389	107	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#320	139	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#347	121	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#359	108	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#294	141	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#379	96	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#416	80	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#535	50	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#717	32	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#653	33	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#993	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#947	17	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#973	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1263	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1113	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1591	7	High	Verified
2007	New South Wales, Australia	male	#89	118	Insufficient	Not yet available
2006	New South Wales, Australia	male	#77	132	Insufficient	Not yet available
2005	New South Wales, Australia	male	#59	151	Insufficient	Not yet available
2004	New South Wales, Australia	male	#76	121	Insufficient	Not yet available
2003	New South Wales, Australia	male	#97	93	Insufficient	Not yet available
2002	New South Wales, Australia	male	#79	116	Insufficient	Not yet available
2001	New South Wales, Australia	male	#94	91	Insufficient	Not yet available
2000	New South Wales, Australia	male	#90	92	Insufficient	Not yet available
1999	New South Wales, Australia	male	#87	102	Insufficient	Not yet available
1998	New South Wales, Australia	male	#90	93	Insufficient	Not yet available
1997	New South Wales, Australia	male	#90	102	Insufficient	Not yet available
2005	New Zealand	male	#73	68	High	Verified
2004	New Zealand	male	#81	66	High	Verified
2003	New Zealand	male	#79	64	High	Verified
2002	New Zealand	male	#76	66	High	Verified
2001	New Zealand	male	#97	53	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#274	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#215	9	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#318	5	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#342	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	7	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#454	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#454	7	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#556	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#370	10	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	10	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#394	9	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#389	9	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#459	7	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#428	8	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#404	9	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	6	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#455	7	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#429	7	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#382	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #59, first reached in 2005.

It held a top-100 place in 11 years, 11 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 151 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 2005.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Brayan · #611, 19y
Braydon · #518, 29y
Brayen · #1935, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Chase · #59, 29y
River · #59, 30y
Phoenix · #57, 30y
Miles · #62, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Chase · #59, 29y
River · #59, 30y
Angel · #60, 30y
Lochlan · #60, 29y

Brayden was ranked #59 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Brayden and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Brayden without appearing here.

Brayden moved ahead of

Tayla Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1591 and #1458 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1113 and #2022.
Anders Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1591 and #1591 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1113 and #1761.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1096 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #947 and #1595.
Shannon Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1591 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1113 and #1761.

Moved ahead of Brayden

Mathias Compare
In 2024 they stood at #472 and #520 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #676 and #432.
Albie Compare
In 2019 they stood at #370 and #402 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2020 that had become #556 and #361.
Carter Compare
In 2009 they stood at #429 and #604 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2010 that had become #720 and #542.
Finley Compare
In 2011 they stood at #455 and #623 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2012 that had become #500 and #336.

Moved the opposite way to Brayden

Garry Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Brayden went from #1591 to #827 while Garry went from #573 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Brayden went from #1591 to #827 while Graeme went from #755 to #4107.
Nicola Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Brayden went from #1591 to #827 while Nicola went from #2863 to #4107.
Brent Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Brayden went from #1591 to #746 while Brent went from #898 to #3449.

Moved the same way as Brayden

Bruce Compare
Between 2009 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Brayden went from #429 to #676 and Bruce from #472 to #676.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #59 in New South Wales, Australia in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Brayden

Brayden at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Brayden across 5 official records

Brayden by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Brayden appears in

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Brayden at a glance

Brayden across 5 official records

Brayden by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Brayden appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Brayden

Brayden and the names beside it

Brayden moved ahead of

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