Brick

Peak · boys
1959 · 16 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
459
since 1951

Brick over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Brick has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #2,033, 1959boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#9,7147
2024#8,9878
2023#6,89712
2022#10,8636
2021#9,7147
2020#8,0679
2019#8,8898
2018#5,77015
2017#5,52616
2016#6,34913
2015#5,99914
2014#6,30713
2013#5,92314
2012#6,62612
2011#4,11024
2010#7,08711
2009#10,9946
2008#9,0198
2007#7,59010
2006#6,90411
2005#8,2998
2004#9,9486
2003#7,8318
2002#7,6438
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1999#6,5309
1998#9,6315
1997#9,2655
1996#7,9716
1995#5,9289
1994—
1993#6,8167
1992#7,4226
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1990#5,8238
1989#5,1659
1988#7,2705
1987#5,4597
1986#5,9266
1985#5,7856
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1980#4,4958
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1978#5,7725
1977#4,1648
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1975#5,4645
1974#5,2275
1973#4,0547
1972#4,4416
1971#4,9075
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1968#3,6736
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1962#3,0418
1961#2,9009
1960#3,0778
1959#2,03316
1958#2,8189
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First appearance
1951

The first year at least five boys were named Brick! It came in at #3,364, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1952–1953, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Brick is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Brick in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Brick
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 727 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #9,714)
  • 1,647 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #9,714)
  • 3,715 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #9,714)
Rise & fade · boys
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1951
  • Peaked 1959 at #2,033 (16 births)
  • Births halved by 1960, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 79,136
  • Highest: 1 in 79,136 boys born in 2011 were named Brick (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,033 in 1959, was only 1 in 133,407 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 30.5% of all boys named Brick (140) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s37#2,033 (1959)#2,917
1960s31#2,900 (1961)#3,173
1970s41#4,054 (1973)#4,861
1980s41#4,495 (1980)#5,683
1990s55#5,823 (1990)#7,423
2000s65#6,904 (2006)#8,529
2010s140#4,110 (2011)#6,259
2020s49#6,897 (2023)#9,040

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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