Brave
Brave was the 3191st most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 37 babies. Its best year was 2021, when it ranked 2506th; the most babies were born in 2022 (54). Over the last ten years it has moved up 1,228 places. More babies were named Brave in the 2020s than in any other decade.
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- Rank in 2025
- #3,191 boys, down 679 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 37boys
- Girls and boys
- 25% girls, 75% boys2021–2025
- Peak year
- 202254 babies
- Total since 1880
- 668babies recorded
Brave popularity since 1880
| Year | Rank (girls) | Rank (boys) | Babies (girls) | Babies (boys) |
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| 2025 | #10,238 | #3,191 | 9 | 37 |
| 2020 | #5,697 | #2,512 | 21 | 51 |
| 2010 | — | #9,831 | — | 7 |
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How popular is Brave, counting every spelling?
Brave has no other common spelling that sounds the same.
How many kids will share the name Brave?
37 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Brave (0.01 per 1,000 births). For a boy named Brave born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 226 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Brave.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Brave?
About 500 people born in the US named Brave are alive today, with a median age of 6; half are between 4 and 10. That makes Brave a young name: most people with it are children.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Brave by state
How common Brave was among boys born in each state in 2021–2025. In 48 states fewer than five boys a year got the name, too few for SSA to publish, so those states show as zero.
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Questions about the name Brave
How popular is the name Brave?
Brave was the 3191st most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 37 babies. Its best year was 2021, when it ranked 2506th; the most babies were born in 2022 (54). Over the last ten years it has moved up 1,228 places. More babies were named Brave in the 2020s than in any other decade.
Is Brave a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, 25% girls, 75% boys given the name Brave in the US.
Where is Brave most popular?
In 2021–2025, Brave was most common in Texas (0.03 per 1,000 boys), followed by California and Florida.