Brain — boys' name

What the Data Says About Brain

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,596 babies named Brain between 1950 and 2017, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brain currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 189 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brain performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,633 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Brain shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 546 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Brain in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brain 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 4,596 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.