Brave — #3377 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Brave

The Social Security Administration has registered 469 babies named Brave between 2008 and 2024, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brave currently holds the #3377 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 54 babies received it in a single year. Brave is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 150 additional births since 2015.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brave performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 246 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Brave shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Brave in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brave 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 469 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.