Brain
Brain is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 597th, in 1972.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1982189 births
- Best rank
- #597in 1972
- Since 1950
- 4,596people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,596 boys have been named Brain in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 189 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 189 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1970s alone account for 36%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1982, its biggest year
Brain was the 632nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1982 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Jason and David. See all of 1982.
Names that rose and fell with Brain
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Chistopherpeak 1985
- Taddpeak 1985
- Chirstopherpeak 1981
- Christoperpeak 1985
- Shawnpeak 1971
- Chadpeak 1972
- Chadwickpeak 1975
- Graigpeak 1979
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.