Brown
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#7,764
not recorded in 2025
2025 births
10
All-time births
1,477
1% of them in 2025
More common than
91%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1918
- 55 births
- Best rank
- #465
- in 1881
- First recorded
- 1881
- #465 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1929
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 97 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 191855#896Peak
- 192250#1,000
- 191645#953
- 191741#1,019
- 191538#1,039
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #465 in 1881 · peak births 55 in 1918
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
1,477 boys · 5 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 Brown has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.