Braden comes from an Irish surname, an anglicized form of Ó Bradáin. It developed from the surname Bradán, which means ‘salmon’.
Braden is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Braden isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Braden ranks 466. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Braden. In the entire USA, approximately 43,296 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Braden. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Braden comes from an Irish surname, an anglicized form of Ó Bradáin. It developed from the surname Bradán, which means ‘salmon’.
Braden can also derive.. from various English place names meaning 'broad valley'.
The name Braden may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Braden is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 845 men in Utah is called Braden. In total, that’s 1,612 people who feel addressed when the name Braden is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #198 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Braden as the answer a total of 43,296 times. This places Braden at #479 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Braden as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Braden is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Braden and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Braden, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Apple
Dinosaur
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Braden
Braden
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
R
A
D
E
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
R
A
D
E
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Braden sounds like this:
