Brain
Last seen for girls in 1985 at #10,677 · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #10,775
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1972 · 179 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,596since 1950
Brain over time
Rank among boys' names. Brain has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
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| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | — | #10,775 | 6 | |
| 2016 | — | #12,185 | 5 | |
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | — | — | ||
| 2013 | — | #9,655 | 7 | |
| 2012 | — | #10,770 | 6 | |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | #8,803 | 8 | |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,393 | 13 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,262 | 13 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,094 | 13 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,941 | 23 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,813 | 13 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,280 | 28 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,554 | 24 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,061 | 29 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,075 | 28 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,279 | 24 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,599 | 32 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,981 | 25 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,535 | 30 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,923 | 24 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,082 | 39 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,850 | 45 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,914 | 42 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,254 | 79 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,278 | 75 | |
| 1989 | — | #997 | 105 | |
| 1988 | — | #823 | 132 | |
| 1987 | — | #777 | 140 | |
| 1986 | — | #756 | 143 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #710 | 155 |
| 1984 | — | #733 | 141 | |
| 1983 | — | #624 | 187 | |
| 1982 | — | #632 | 189 | |
| 1981 | — | #679 | 162 | |
| 1980 | — | #651 | 177 | |
| 1979 | — | #675 | 160 | |
| 1978 | — | #697 | 144 | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #660 | 163 |
| 1976 | — | #660 | 154 | |
| 1975 | — | #601 | 182 | |
| 1974 | — | #603 | 176 | |
| 1973 | — | #608 | 170 | |
| 1972 | — | #596 | 179 | |
| 1971 | — | #645 | 162 | |
| 1970 | — | #692 | 143 | |
| 1969 | — | #659 | 143 | |
| 1968 | — | #696 | 118 | |
| 1967 | — | #742 | 98 | |
| 1966 | — | #774 | 88 | |
| 1965 | — | #948 | 60 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,082 | 49 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,037 | 53 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,187 | 43 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,467 | 30 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,692 | 23 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,559 | 26 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,766 | 20 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,952 | 17 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,798 | 9 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brain! It came in at #3,681, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1955, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brain
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2017
- Biggest jump: 174 spots in 1966 (#948 → #774)
- Biggest drop: 281 spots in 1990 (#997 → #1,278)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1972 at #596 (179 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 1965–1989
- Highest: 1 in 8,579 boys born in 1975 were named Brain (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 308,493 boys born in 2017 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #596 in 1972, was only 1 in 9,059 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.5% of all boys named Brain (1,633) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 82 | #1,559 (1959) | #2,607 |
| 1960s | 705 | #659 (1969) | #1,028 |
| 1970s | 1,633 | #596 (1972) | #644 |
| 1980s | 1,531 | #624 (1983) | #738 |
| 1990s | 415 | #1,254 (1991) | #2,270 |
| 2000s | 191 | #3,061 (2001) | #5,134 |
| 2010s | 39 | #8,803 (2010) | #10,298 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brain in 1977
Top girls' names in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
girls
1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 306,629 of them was named Brain, which outranked 14.8% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,677 names at #9,652; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 10,081 of them was named Brain, which outranked 90.4% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).