Brayan

What Brayan means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Brayan yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #768 vs #1,897 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Brayan?

US: Falling: down from #596 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #1902 in 2015, #1897 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2006, when 1,151 boys got the name (#294 that year). First in the US records in 1979.

How common

• About 1 in 5,114 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 20,918 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AL (0.6 per 1,000 boys), MS (0.46 per 1,000 boys), OK (0.4 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Brayan is #768 in the US and #1897 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Brayan were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Bryan1,005 US · 77 E&W
• Bryon17 US
• Brayen0 US · 11 E&W
• Breyon7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Brayan

Boys

• Angel#67Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #67 vs #1,307 in 2025
• Diego#158Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #444 in 2025
• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*
• Caden#201Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #201 vs #745 in 2025
• Hayden#161“hay + valley”^*
• Ethan#24“firmness, strong, or long-lived”^*

For a sister

• Chloe#23“young green shoot”^*
• Gracie#227Editor’s note Down from #165 in 2015 to #227 in 2025 in the US
• Isabelle#166Variant of Elizabeth, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Grace#38From the word “grace”^*
• Juliana#256Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #256 vs #1,892 in 2025
• Gabriella#105Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Brayan’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.