Brain
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
4,596
peak year 1982
More common than
96%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1982
- 189 births
- Best rank
- #597
- in 1972
- First recorded
- 1950
- #3,748 that year
- Last recorded
- 2017
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1979
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 62 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1982189#632Peak
- 1983187#624
- 1975182#601
- 1972179#597
- 1980177#652
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #597 in 1972 · peak births 189 in 1982
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
4,596 boys · 10 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Brain has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.