Brown — boys' name

What the Data Says About Brown

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,467 babies named Brown between 1881 and 2023, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brown currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 55 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brown performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 320 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Brown shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 82 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Brown in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brown 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 1,467 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.