Braydon
- Pronunciation
- [Bray-don]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Broad Hillside.
- Origin
- Irish
About the Name Braydon
Braydon is an Irish-origin name carrying the meaning of broad hillside, built from Gaelic elements that evoke wide, open landscape. The name belongs to a large and closely related family of surname-derived names — including Braeden, Brayden, Braiden, Bradon, Braddon, Bradan, and Braedon — all of which share that same landscape-rooted Celtic base. This sprawling variant cluster reflects a late-twentieth-century trend in which surname-style names ending in the -den or -don sound flooded the boys' chart, with parents mixing and matching spellings freely.
In SSA records, Braydon first entered the top-1000 in 2000 and reached its best rank of #311 in 2009, accumulating 11,959 top-1000 births over its tracked run. That peak year coincided with the height of the broader Brayden-family wave. The name then drifted steadily: #713 with 342 births in 2017, #855 with 258 births in 2018, and #974 with 220 births in 2019, the final year it appeared in the tracked top-1000.
The full set of recorded variants — Bradan, Braddon, Bradon, Braeden, Braedon, Braiden, and Brayden — underscores how interchangeable these spellings were in practice. Braydon splits the difference between the more common Brayden and the more distinctively Celtic Braeden, offering parents a recognizable name with a slightly less crowded spelling. Its hillside imagery gives it a grounded, outdoorsy quality that suits its sound well.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Braydon
US Popularity History (2000–2019)
Annual US births named Braydon by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2009 with 1,034 boys named Braydon (boy rank #311 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2019, ranked #974 for boys (220 US births). That's 663 places below its 2009 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Braydon Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Braydon the strongest states are Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | #495 | 17 |
| 2 | Alabama | #526 | 55 |
| 3 | Kentucky | #566 | 27 |
| 4 | South Carolina | #602 | 42 |
| 5 | Michigan | #635 | 50 |
| 6 | Georgia | #650 | 71 |
| 7 | Louisiana | #660 | 42 |
| 8 | Tennessee | #663 | 58 |
| 9 | Pennsylvania | #693 | 63 |
| 10 | Virginia | #698 | 27 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | #1,174 | 106 |
| 2 | California | #1,087 | 71 |
| 3 | Florida | #1,030 | 65 |
| 4 | Ohio | #837 | 72 |
| 5 | Illinois | #837 | 31 |
| 6 | Arizona | #810 | 30 |
| 7 | Indiana | #767 | 62 |
| 8 | Minnesota | #745 | 17 |
| 9 | North Carolina | #730 | 85 |
| 10 | Maryland | #721 | 24 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Braydon in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bradan | From The Broad Valley | Male | English |
| Braddon | Broad Hillside. | Male | Irish |
| Bradon | Broad Hillside. | Male | English |
| Braeden | Dark Valley. | Male | Celtic |
| Braedon | Broad Hillside. | Male | English |
| Braiden | Variation Of Braden: From The Broad Valley | Male | English |
| Brayden | Broad Hillside. | Male | English |
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Compare Braydon to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Braydon against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).