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Braiden

Braiden means "salmon (Irish surname)" and comes from Irish, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It is having a real moment, more popular in the 2000s than ever before. These days, it is one of the rarer names on record. Its single strongest year on record was 2010.

EtymologyVariant of Braden/Brayden
IrishMeaning "salmon" (Irish surname)
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
0
1960s
0
1970s
0
1980s
55
1990s
683
2000s
3,582
2010s
2,700
Peaked in the 2000s · 7,020 total U.S. births since 1900