boys:
355 births since 1913
#4231 (8th percentile)
overall:
355 births since 1913
#7384 (5th percentile)
The name Brewster is the #7,384 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 355 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 4.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,231 (7.7% percentile) for all time with 355 births since 1913.
Brewster first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (first recorded for boys in 1913). Birth data for Brewster is available in 50 out of the 108 years between 1913 and 2020. 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.
For boys, Brewster reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #538) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 15 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brewster".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brewster is pronounced as BRUE-ster, which has 2 syllables.
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