Braxton
For 2025 the count puts Braxton at #172 nationwide, and it is easing off its peak. It has been on the books since 1885 and never mattered more than it does today; 65,831 bearers and counting.
Braxton’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Braxton, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Braxton since 1885
Braxton peaked in 2014 at #120; #172 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Braxton is most common
Braxton is most common in Vermont: 0.5% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. West Virginia (0.41%) and Montana (0.4%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Braxton
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Barrett
#171 in 2025
Beckham
#168 in 2025
Bryson
#152 in 2025
Brielle
#143 in 2025
Beckett
#141 in 2025
Bentley
#215 in 2025
Baker
#217 in 2025
Bella
#136 in 2025
Browse: names starting with B · all names
About Braxton
How common is Braxton today?
For 2025 the count puts Braxton at #172 nationwide, and it is easing off its peak. The chart above draws the whole run since 1885, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Braxton have a meaning on record?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Braxton. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
Which names sit near Braxton?
Nearest by the published recipe: Barrett, Beckham and Bryson. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Braxton’s free Name Kit
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