Brighten — #10409 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Brighten

The Social Security Administration has registered 165 babies named Brighten between 2003 and 2024, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brighten currently holds the #10409 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Brighten is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 98 additional births since 2000.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brighten performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 91 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Brighten shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brighten 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 165 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.