Brae - unisex name

What the Data Says About Brae

The Social Security Administration has registered 203 babies named Brae between 1970 and 2023, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Brae currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Brae is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 149 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brae performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 61 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Brae shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brae in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 203 total represents a lower bound, actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.