Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Brave” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brave” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brave” 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 “Brave” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brave” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brave” 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
2008 9 0.00000229 9 -100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 -100%
2014 19 0.000005126 19 -100%
2015 39 0.000010538 18 21 -8%
2016 35 0.00000954 5 30 -71%
2017 25 0.000006991 7 18 -44%
2018 47 0.000013368 14 33 -40%
2019 60 0.000017286 19 41 -37%
2020 72 0.000021553 21 51 -42%
2021 69 0.000020366 16 53 -54%
2022 79 0.000023351 25 54 -37%
2023 69 0.000020838 16 53 -54%
2024 44 0.000013219 9 35 -59%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Brave:

  1. Brassen
  2. Braston
  3. Braulia
  4. Braulio
  5. Braun
  6. Brave (this page)
  7. Bravely
  8. Braven
  9. Bravery
  10. Bravin
  11. Bravlio