Brace

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 9 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
9
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Brace by the numbers

Brace was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 10 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Brace

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Brace. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Brycespeckled or freckled2,468 in the US (2017)
  • Brucefrom Bruis in France714 in the US (2017)
  • Bricespeckled or freckled155 in the US (2017)
  • Braehillside or slope4 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Brave25 in the US (2017)
  • Brance7 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Brace

Names that are said the same way as Brace, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Brace

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