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Brewer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 310 in 2025. Its best rank was #804 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 97% of babies named Brewer in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#804 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Brewer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 310 boys in 2025. Peak: #804 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 310 (2025).
In 2025, 310 US boys were named Brewer, making it the 804th most common boys’ name of the year, up 305 places from #1,109 in 2024. That is 117 more than the 193 boys named Brewer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #804, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 310. For comparison, it was #3,521 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brewer in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 1,404 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 883 babies named Brewer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,035 US boys were named Brewer; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 310. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brewer ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #337 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 16 | #337 | — |
| Tennessee | 23 | #359 | — |
| Arkansas | 8 | #403 | — |
| Iowa | 8 | #403 | — |
| Kentucky | 11 | #426 | — |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #428 | — |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #443 | — |
| Nebraska | 5 | #444 | — |
| Indiana | 15 | #454 | — |
| Kansas | 7 | #473 | — |
| Ohio | 21 | #500 | — |
| Missouri | 11 | #524 | #834 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #651 | — |
| Michigan | 11 | #683 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #715 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #757 | — |
| Georgia | 12 | #758 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #760 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #817 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,016 | — |
| Texas | 23 | #1,016 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,244 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,241 | 310 | #804 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,697 | 193 | #1,109 |
| 2023 | — | — | 107 | #1,623 |
| 2022 | — | — | 103 | #1,666 |
| 2021 | — | — | 79 | #1,919 |
| 2020 | — | — | 77 | #1,915 |
| 2019 | — | — | 56 | #2,399 |
| 2018 | — | — | 38 | #3,061 |
| 2017 | — | — | 41 | #2,900 |
| 2016 | — | — | 31 | #3,537 |
| 2015 | — | — | 31 | #3,521 |
| 2014 | — | — | 33 | #3,310 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,134 |
| 2012 | — | — | 43 | #2,779 |
| 2011 | — | — | 34 | #3,246 |
| 2010 | — | — | 24 | #4,119 |
| 2009 | — | — | 24 | #4,178 |
| 2008 | — | — | 21 | #4,560 |
| 2007 | — | — | 11 | #7,159 |
| 2006 | — | — | 15 | #5,555 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #5,916 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #5,922 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #10,887 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,235 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #9,443 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,825 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,063 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,033 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,788 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,412 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #3,973 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,312 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #2,876 |
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).