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Brave: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,506 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,506 in 2021; #3,191 in 2025. About 80% of babies named Brave in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,191 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,506.
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Brave: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,506 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 54 (2022).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Brave, making it the 3,191st most common boys’ name of the year, up 88 places from #3,279 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 36 boys named Brave in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,506, reached in 2021. The most boys given the name in a single year was 54, in 2022. For comparison, it was #4,419 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Brave, making it the 10,238th most common girls’ name of the year, down 567 places from #9,671 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 10 girls named Brave in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,192, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 25. For comparison, it was #6,766 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brave in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 9 babies. In all, 668 US babies have been given the name, 24% of them girls and 76% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 381 babies named Brave.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 406 US boys were named Brave; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,238 | 37 | #3,191 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,671 | 36 | #3,279 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,985 | 53 | #2,514 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,192 | 54 | #2,522 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,014 | 53 | #2,506 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,697 | 51 | #2,512 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,213 | 41 | #2,947 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,827 | 33 | #3,381 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,945 | 18 | #5,133 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,676 | 30 | #3,602 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,766 | 22 | #4,419 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #4,898 |
| 2013 | — | — | 15 | #5,698 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,279 |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #12,530 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #9,831 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,090 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,404 |
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).