Brace
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brace has been given to 121 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Brace, 2019
1 in 496,000
Brace over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Brace?
Brace had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 496,000
- 7 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 256,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 343,825 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brace sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brace. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Braces were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brace was born before 2005 — so the typical Brace is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 52.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 105
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.8% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Brace rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2012 (10)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.1% average annual change
Spellings of Brace
Brace is not the most common spelling — Bruce is, with 28.1% against Brace's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Brace around the world
Where Brace ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1974–1995#533in 1995
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Brace by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Brace
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brace
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.