girls:
56 births since 1997
#5660 (1st percentile)
boys:
655 births since 1970
#3932 (14th percentile)
overall:
711 births since 1970
#7028 (9th percentile)
The name Bray is the #7,028 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 711 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 9.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,932 (14.2% percentile) for all time with 655 births since 1970. For girls, it ranks #5,660 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 56 births since 1997.
Bray first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for boys and 1997 for girls). Birth data for Bray is available in 43 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (43 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bray has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Bray reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #869) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Bray is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #881 (3.3% percentile) with 19 births per million.
For girls, Bray reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #941) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bray".
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