Braun
Braun was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,353 among boys’ names; 381 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Braun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Braun?
#8,353 among boys’ names, 2025
Braun rose from #10,855 in 2015 to #8,353 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 5.3 per million.
18 babies in 2018, the peak
Braun peaked in 2018, when 18 boys were given it, #5,133 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,353 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,606 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,344 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,089 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,860 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,017 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,723 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,133 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,831 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,808 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #10,855 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,892 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 14 | #5,959 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,120 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 14 | #5,979 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,647 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,380 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,766 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,664 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,830 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,240 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,575 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,086 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,647 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,215 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,910 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,883 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,734 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,187 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,583 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,884 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,201 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,538 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,528 | 3.7 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,822 | 6.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,554 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,477 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,557 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,902 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,890 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,204 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,995 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,565 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,881 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,563 | 3.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,285 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Braun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Braun has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Braun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Braun, and how old are they?
An estimated 368 Americans named Braun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 389 people named Braun (20 women and girls, 369 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 323 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,784 babies since 1880, Braun is the third most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 367 babies (2.5%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Braun
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Braun and names like it
- Compare Braun and BrayanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBraun peaked in 2018.
- Wisconsin’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Braun since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Braun.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Braun alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.