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Boy · Irish or English surname, modern American spelling
Brayden
Say it: BRAY-dun
Meaning
A modern American respelling of the surname Braden (from Irish Ó Bradáin, from bradán 'salmon', or English place names meaning 'broad valley'), shaped by rhyme with Aiden and Jayden.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Barely used before the 1990s, it was in the US top 30 by the late 2000s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2010s
In the United States
- 126,190 babies given this name since 1970
- At its height in 2010, about 1 in 210 boys
- 3,262 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Braden, Braeden, Braydon
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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