Brown comes from the Modern American tradition, meaning Color, earthy, common, surname..
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How popular is Brown?
1918peak year
Today, Brown is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #10141), with only about 7 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 1918, 55 babies were given the name (ranked #896 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 1910s. In all, around 1,472 babies have been registered as Brown since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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