Brown
Brown was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,760 among boys’ names; 1,482 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brown by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brown?
#7,760 among boys’ names, 2025
Brown entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #7,760 in 2025.
55 babies in 1918, the peak
Brown peaked in 1918, when 55 boys were given it, #896 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,760 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,350 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,074 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,001 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,938 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,002 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,573 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,647 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 8 | #4,548 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,703 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,463 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,343 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #3,981 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,115 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,077 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,342 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,688 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,219 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,550 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,308 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,844 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,514 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,589 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #2,977 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,468 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,515 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,221 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,873 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,125 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,175 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,412 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,000 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,701 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,049 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,592 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,277 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,726 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,093 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,375 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,591 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 14 | #1,940 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,427 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,432 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,941 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,433 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,680 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,656 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,698 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,281 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,251 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 35 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 50 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,366 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,209 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 55 | #896 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,019 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 45 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 27 | #1,104 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 26 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 20 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1910 | 13 | #873 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 16 | #684 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 17 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1907 | 15 | #672 | 0.10 |
| 1906 | 10 | #803 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 10 | #797 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,076 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 7 | #944 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 8 | #784 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 9 | #910 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 7 | #868 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 7 | #896 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 6 | #957 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 12 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1895 | 7 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 8 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 7 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 11 | #644 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 9 | #652 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,022 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 9 | #681 | 0.08 |
| 1888 | 8 | #761 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 11 | #551 | 0.11 |
| 1885 | 12 | #553 | 0.11 |
| 1883 | 12 | #531 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 8 | #710 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 14 | #465 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brown a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brown has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 97 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brown: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brown, and how old are they?
An estimated 289 Americans named Brown and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 44 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,497 people named Brown (488 women and girls, 1,009 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 336 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.5 times 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.
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 Brown
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 Brown and names like it
- Compare Brown and FlemingBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBrown peaked in 1918.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brown since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Brown.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Brown alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.