girls:
10 births since 2019
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
328 births since 1994
#4258 (7th percentile)
overall:
338 births since 1994
#7401 (4th percentile)
The name Brazos is the #7,401 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 338 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 4.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,258 (7.1% percentile) for all time with 328 births since 1994. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2019.
Brazos first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for boys and 2019 for girls). Birth data for Brazos is available in 25 out of the 30 years between 1994 and 2023 (25 years for boys and 2 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 Brazos has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brazos reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #892) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brazos ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 78.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brazos reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brazos".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Brazos. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.0% confident that Brazos is pronounced as BRAH-zohs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BRAH-zuhs, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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