Brighten
- Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477
- Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894
- Given to boys 62.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2010 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 165since 2003
Brighten over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | — | #9,763 | 7 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | — | #8,215 | 9 | |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | — | #7,605 | 10 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | — | #12,055 | 5 | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | — | |
| 2004 | — | #11,356 | 5 | |
| 2003 | — | #8,643 | 7 | |
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First appearance
2003
The first year at least five boys were named Brighten! It came in at #8,643, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2004–2007, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Brighten is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Brighten in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Brighten
Momentum · boys
Faded out
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
7 yrs to peak
- Debuted 2003
- Peaked 2010 at #5,741 (15 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 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 127,912
- Highest: 1 in 127,912 boys born in 2010 were named Brighten (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 246,127 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 55.2% of all boys named Brighten (91) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2021
- Mostly girls until 2020, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 36 | #8,643 (2003) | #10,741 |
| 2010s | 91 | #5,741 (2010) | #7,951 |
| 2020s | 38 | #7,089 (2021) | #9,552 |
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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