Brewer
Brewer was given to 310 boys in 2025, #804 among boys’ names; 1,404 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Brewer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 10.
Brewer climbed 305 places in 2025, the #10 climb among the boys’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brewer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brewer?
#804 among boys’ names, 2025
Brewer rose from #3,520 in 2015 to #804 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.18 per 1,000.
319 babies in 2025, the peak
Brewer peaked in 2025, when 319 babies were given it (310 boys, #804 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 193 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 310 | #804 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 193 | #1,109 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 107 | #1,623 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 103 | #1,666 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 79 | #1,918 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 77 | #1,915 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,398 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,059 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,899 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,536 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,520 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,308 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,132 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,778 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,245 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,118 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,176 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,556 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,155 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,551 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 13 | #5,910 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,915 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,880 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,228 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,437 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,823 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,031 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,786 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,410 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #3,971 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,311 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,875 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brewer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brewer has been given almost only to boys: 14 girls in 33 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brewer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brewer, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,404 Americans ever recorded as Brewer. The median Brewer alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 617 people named Brewer (53 women and girls, 564 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 498 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 212 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,140 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Brewer
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 Brewer and names like it
- Compare Brewer and OziasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brewer since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Brewer.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brewer alive today were born 2013-2025.
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