Bravery — #9622 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Bravery

The Social Security Administration has registered 141 babies named Bravery between 2011 and 2024, spanning 14 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bravery currently holds the #9622 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Bravery is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 69 additional births since 2014.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bravery performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 99 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Bravery shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Bravery in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bravery 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 141 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.