Meaning not yet researched.
Brain: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #597 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #597 in 1972. No US babies were recorded with the name Brain in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #597 in 1972.
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Brain: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #597 in 1972 · most boys in one year: 189 (1982).
Fewer than five US boys were named Brain in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #597, reached in 1972. The most boys given the name in a single year was 189, in 1982. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #3,748 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brain in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 4,606 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,638 babies named Brain.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11 US boys were named Brain; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 6.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brayan (16,558 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Brain in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #10,963 |
| 2016 | — | — | 5 | #12,446 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #9,778 |
| 2012 | — | — | 6 | #10,966 |
| 2011 | — | — | 7 | #9,747 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #8,912 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,005 |
| 2008 | — | — | 13 | #6,443 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,311 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,141 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #3,954 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #5,851 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,293 |
| 2002 | — | — | 24 | #3,565 |
| 2001 | — | — | 29 | #3,072 |
| 2000 | — | — | 28 | #3,084 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,290 |
| 1998 | — | — | 32 | #2,602 |
| 1997 | — | — | 25 | #2,992 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,541 |
| 1995 | — | — | 24 | #2,930 |
| 1994 | — | — | 39 | #2,088 |
| 1993 | — | — | 45 | #1,851 |
| 1992 | — | — | 42 | #1,921 |
| 1991 | — | — | 79 | #1,256 |
| 1990 | — | — | 75 | #1,278 |
| 1989 | — | — | 105 | #997 |
| 1988 | — | — | 132 | #823 |
| 1987 | — | — | 140 | #777 |
| 1986 | — | — | 143 | #756 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,843 | 155 | #710 |
| 1984 | — | — | 141 | #733 |
| 1983 | — | — | 187 | #624 |
| 1982 | — | — | 189 | #632 |
| 1981 | — | — | 162 | #679 |
| 1980 | — | — | 177 | #652 |
| 1979 | — | — | 160 | #675 |
| 1978 | — | — | 144 | #698 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,792 | 163 | #661 |
| 1976 | — | — | 154 | #661 |
| 1975 | — | — | 182 | #601 |
| 1974 | — | — | 176 | #603 |
| 1973 | — | — | 170 | #608 |
| 1972 | — | — | 179 | #597 |
| 1971 | — | — | 162 | #646 |
| 1970 | — | — | 143 | #692 |
| 1969 | — | — | 143 | #659 |
| 1968 | — | — | 118 | #696 |
| 1967 | — | — | 98 | #744 |
| 1966 | — | — | 88 | #774 |
| 1965 | — | — | 60 | #948 |
| 1964 | — | — | 49 | #1,084 |
| 1963 | — | — | 53 | #1,037 |
| 1962 | — | — | 43 | #1,188 |
| 1961 | — | — | 30 | #1,468 |
| 1960 | — | — | 23 | #1,695 |
| 1959 | — | — | 26 | #1,561 |
| 1958 | — | — | 20 | #1,772 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #1,960 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,814 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #3,939 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,748 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).