Boys' name · since 2022
Bru
22 babies named Bru in U.S. Social Security records since 2022, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #28,073 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #11,806 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 22
- born since 2022
- 2020s
- peak decade
22 babies have been named Bru since 2022, making it today's #11806 boys' name.
Social Security Administration records show Bru recorded 22 times among boys since 2022, holding rank #11806 nationally today, ahead of 15% of boys, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2022 to 2025.
- #28,073 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #11,806 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 22 born since 2022
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Bru ranks #28,073 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,806 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 22 born since 2022, peaking in the 2020s.
- #28,073 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #11,806 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 22
- born since 2022
- 2020s
- peak decade
Bru's 22 recorded births place it above 37.4% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Bru compares
22 9th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Bru's all-time total is 94% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Bru | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 22 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 34 | 22,252 |
Bru's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Bru's full recorded timeline at 2023, 68% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 32% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2025, with just 6 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2023 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Bru popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 4 years of records
Bru by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (22 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Bru's strongest decade.
22 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Bru births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
22 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 22 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Bru: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2022–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Bru draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.