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How popular is “Braden” in the USA?

Number of people named “Braden” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Braden” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Braden” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Braden” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Braden” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Braden” by birth year

This chart shows how “Braden” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 -100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 -100%
1947 15 0.000004164 15 -100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 -100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1950 12 0.000003425 12 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 -100%
1953 19 0.00000493 19 -100%
1954 15 0.000003768 15 -100%
1955 22 0.000005479 22 -100%
1956 23 0.000005578 23 -100%
1957 16 0.000003808 16 -100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 -100%
1959 15 0.000003608 15 -100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 -100%
1961 19 0.000004587 19 -100%
1962 16 0.000003965 16 -100%
1963 23 0.000005811 23 -100%
1964 25 0.000006431 25 -100%
1965 40 0.000011033 40 -100%
1966 39 0.000011221 39 -100%
1967 34 0.000010015 34 -100%
1968 31 0.000009176 31 -100%
1969 33 0.000009496 33 -100%
1970 67 0.000018577 67 -100%
1971 59 0.000017189 59 -100%
1972 45 0.000014318 45 -100%
1973 61 0.00002022 61 -100%
1974 68 0.000022368 68 -100%
1975 91 0.000030138 6 85 -87%
1976 86 0.000028343 86 -100%
1977 117 0.000036833 117 -100%
1978 108 0.000034028 108 -100%
1979 118 0.000035467 118 -100%
1980 147 0.000042677 147 -100%
1981 158 0.000045673 158 -100%
1982 196 0.000055873 196 -100%
1983 160 0.000046198 160 -100%
1984 192 0.000055034 192 -100%
1985 277 0.00007761 277 -100%
1986 300 0.000084339 300 -100%
1987 294 0.00008154 8 286 -95%
1988 286 0.000077401 286 -100%
1989 348 0.00009052 6 342 -97%
1990 396 0.00010019 396 -100%
1991 447 0.000114755 8 439 -96%
1992 549 0.000142921 5 544 -98%
1993 596 0.000158078 11 585 -96%
1994 734 0.000197436 13 721 -96%
1995 835 0.000228008 18 817 -96%
1996 1012 0.000277474 8 1004 -98%
1997 1062 0.000292905 12 1050 -98%
1998 1203 0.000327062 13 1190 -98%
1999 1662 0.000449935 19 1643 -98%
2000 1755 0.000464298 22 1733 -97%
2001 1936 0.000517178 13 1923 -99%
2002 2315 0.000619267 24 2291 -98%
2003 2363 0.000621463 10 2353 -99%
2004 2643 0.000691718 22 2621 -98%
2005 3058 0.000795351 12 3046 -99%
2006 2874 0.000726457 17 2857 -99%
2007 2695 0.000674141 6 2689 -100%
2008 2531 0.000643911 7 2524 -99%
2009 2039 0.000533745 5 2034 -100%
2010 1709 0.000462424 1709 -100%
2011 1342 0.000366888 1342 -100%
2012 1142 0.000312246 7 1135 -99%
2013 970 0.000266069 5 965 -99%
2014 894 0.000241206 894 -100%
2015 758 0.000204814 758 -100%
2016 599 0.000163273 599 -100%
2017 513 0.000143449 513 -100%
2018 480 0.000136523 480 -100%
2019 387 0.000111497 387 -100%
2020 287 0.000085913 287 -100%
2021 254 0.000074972 254 -100%
2022 245 0.000072418 245 -100%
2023 187 0.000056475 187 -100%
2024 158 0.000047469 158 -100%

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