girls:
5 births since 1983
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1881
#3179 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1881
#6273 (19th percentile)
The name Brown is the #6,273 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,472 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 18.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,179 (30.6% percentile) for all time with 1,467 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1983.
Brown first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1983 for girls). Birth data for Brown is available in 96 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (96 years for boys and 1 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 Brown has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brown reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 9.4% percentile (ranked #481) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 129 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brown ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 3.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brown reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #775) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1983.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brown".
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