Bruster
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bruster has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1900. 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 1900, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Bruster, 1900
1 in 90,000
Bruster 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Bruster?
Bruster had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1900, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1900
- 1 in 90,000
- 5 of 450,222 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 30,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1900
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 62,415 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bruster sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1900 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 62,415 children born in 1900 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bruster. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brusters were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bruster was born before 1900 — so the typical Bruster is around 125 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1900s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1900s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Bruster 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 1900 (5)
- Years since peak
- 125
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Bruster
Bruster is not the most common spelling — Buster is, with 87.9% against Bruster's 0.05%.
Bruster by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bruster
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bruster
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.