Brayten
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Brayten by the numbers
Brayten was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 18 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Brayten
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Brayten. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Braxtenbadger's homestead; a modern respelling of Braxton105 in the US (2017)
- Braytonbroad settlement or broad town53 in the US (2017)
- Braysenson of Bray; a modern respelling of Brayson44 in the US (2017)
- Braylen762 in the US (2017)
- Braycen16 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Brayten
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