Brazos — #5145 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Brazos

The Social Security Administration has registered 347 babies named Brazos between 1994 and 2024, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brazos currently holds the #5145 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 26 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brazos performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 171 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Brazos shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 177 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Brazos in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brazos 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 347 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.