Brainard
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brainard has been given to 129 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1914, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Brainard, 1975
1 in 604,000
Brainard 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Brainard?
Brainard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1975
- 1 in 604,000
- 5 of 3,019,126 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 312,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1975
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brainard sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1975 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,541 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brainard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brainards were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brainard was born before 1926 — so the typical Brainard is around 99 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 32.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 55
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (42).
Is Brainard 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 1914 (11)
- Years since peak
- 111
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.8% average annual change
Spellings of Brainard
Brainard is not the most common spelling — Raynard is, with 74.9% against Brainard's 3.2%.
Brainard by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Brainard
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Brainard
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.