Quick answers about Brain
How many people are named Brain?
An estimated 4,213 living Americans are named Brain.
How rare is Brain?
Brain fell below the SSA's 5-birth reporting floor in 2025. It is extremely rare as a new baby name.
How old is the typical Brain?
The median age of a living American named Brain is approximately 47 years, with most bearers falling between 40 and 54 years old.
Is Brain still popular?
Not especially. Brain has been declining since its 1982 peak and registered 0 births in 2025.
Where is Brain most common?
Brain has its strongest geographic signal in New York, where it appears 2.0× more often than the national baseline.
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Where it lives now
Brain is most concentrated in New York — about 2.0× the national rate in the 1990s. It also runs high in California.
States where Brain is given more often than the national average — its present-day heartland.
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