Name meaning & stats
Braden
Braden means “salmon”. 46,465 US babies since 1940, peak 2005.
What it means
“salmon”
Well documented
Originally a surname.
In US birth records
Peak year: 2005
46,465 US babies were named Braden between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Braden (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 85% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2005)