Brown was the #7,679 boys' name in the US in 2025 (10 babies).
Brown as a boy’s name
US
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
2025
#7,679 (10)
2023
#8,255 (9)
2022
#10,863 (6)
2021
#10,799 (6)
2013
#10,728 (6)
2008
#9,871 (7)
1990
#7,178 (6)
1986
#4,853 (8)
1983
#5,484 (6)
1982
#4,593 (8)
1980
#4,495 (8)
1976
#5,587 (5)
1975
#3,428 (10)
1974
#5,227 (5)
1969
#3,314 (8)
The tide so far
Peaked in the US in 1881 at #460.
First recorded in the US in 1881.
A comeback: it faded for decades and is rising again.
How common is it?
about 1 in 170,000 baby boys in the published US list for 2025.
In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.