Brian
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#339
down −37 places
2025 births
979
down −137 births
All-time births
1,173,735
0% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1972
- 36,306 births
- Best rank
- #8
- in 1970
- First recorded
- 1909
- #1,480 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1977
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 116 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 197236,306#8Peak
- 197335,686#8
- 197434,449#8
- 197132,624#9
- 197732,492#8
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #8 in 1970 · peak births 36,306 in 1972
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
1,173,735 boys · 4,563 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 Brian has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.