Brae
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brae has been given to 352 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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. It's used for both sexes: 58% girls, 42% boys all-time.
Babies named Brae, 2023
1 in 474,000
Brae 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Brae over time
In 2025, Brae went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Brae?
Brae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 229,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,234 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brae sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Braes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brae was born before 2001 — so the typical Brae is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 30.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 57.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 203
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (61).
Is Brae 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
- —
- 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
- 34.6% average annual change
Spellings of Brae
Brae is not the most common spelling — Grace is, with 61.2% against Brae's 0.02%.
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.
Brae around the world
Where Brae 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.
- England & Wales2015–2021#5,581in 2021
- South Australia2002–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Brae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Brae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.