Brown
Brown is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 465th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191855 births
- Best rank
- #465in 1881
- Since 1881
- 1,467people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,467 boys have been named Brown in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 55 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 55 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1910s alone account for 22%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Brown | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 74 | |
| 1890s | 79 | |
| 1900s | 98 | |
| 1910s | 320 | |
| 1920s | 311 | |
| 1930s | 197 | |
| 1940s | 153 | |
| 1950s | 92 | |
| 1960s | 53 | |
| 1970s | 20 | |
| 1980s | 30 | |
| 1990s | 6 | |
| 2000s | 7 | |
| 2010s | 6 | |
| 2020s | 21 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Brown was the 896th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Brown
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hilliardpeak 1920
- Websterpeak 1915
- Wmpeak 1916
- Alcidepeak 1924
- Abepeak 1917
- Olafpeak 1916
- Sampeak 1918
- Lonzopeak 1919
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.