Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Brain” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brain” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brain” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Brain” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Brain” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Brain” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Brain” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brain” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1956 9 0.000002183 9 -100%
1957 17 0.000004046 17 -100%
1958 20 0.000004838 20 -100%
1959 26 0.000006253 26 -100%
1960 23 0.000005537 23 -100%
1961 30 0.000007242 30 -100%
1962 43 0.000010656 43 -100%
1963 53 0.00001339 53 -100%
1964 49 0.000012604 49 -100%
1965 60 0.00001655 60 -100%
1966 88 0.000025319 88 -100%
1967 98 0.000028867 98 -100%
1968 118 0.000034928 118 -100%
1969 143 0.000041147 143 -100%
1970 143 0.00003965 143 -100%
1971 162 0.000047198 162 -100%
1972 179 0.000056952 179 -100%
1973 170 0.000056349 170 -100%
1974 176 0.000057895 176 -100%
1975 182 0.000060277 182 -100%
1976 154 0.000050753 154 -100%
1977 168 0.000052888 5 163 -94%
1978 144 0.00004537 144 -100%
1979 160 0.000048091 160 -100%
1980 177 0.000051386 177 -100%
1981 162 0.000046829 162 -100%
1982 189 0.000053877 189 -100%
1983 187 0.000053994 187 -100%
1984 141 0.000040416 141 -100%
1985 160 0.000044829 5 155 -94%
1986 143 0.000040202 143 -100%
1987 139 0.000038551 139 -100%
1988 133 0.000035994 133 -100%
1989 105 0.000027312 105 -100%
1990 75 0.000018975 75 -100%
1991 79 0.000020281 79 -100%
1992 42 0.000010934 42 -100%
1993 45 0.000011935 45 -100%
1994 39 0.00001049 39 -100%
1995 24 0.000006554 24 -100%
1996 30 0.000008225 30 -100%
1997 25 0.000006895 25 -100%
1998 32 0.0000087 32 -100%
1999 24 0.000006497 24 -100%
2000 28 0.000007408 28 -100%
2001 29 0.000007747 29 -100%
2002 24 0.00000642 24 -100%
2003 28 0.000007364 28 -100%
2004 13 0.000003402 13 -100%
2005 23 0.000005982 23 -100%
2006 13 0.000003286 13 -100%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 -100%
2008 13 0.000003307 13 -100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2013 7 0.00000192 7 -100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 -100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 -100%

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