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Brazen

Boy · BRAY-zen · English

Brazen is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “bold; made of brass”. In 2025 it ranked 4,856th for boys in the US (20 babies).

What does Brazen mean?

English: English adjective brazen

“bold; made of brass”

From the English adjective, first meaning made of brass, which later came to mean bold and without shame.

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Is Brazen a girl's or a boy's name?

Brazen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Brazen in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,856among boys
Babies in 2025
20about 1 in 85,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 32% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 20 boys in the US were named Brazen, making it the 4,856th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,037th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 32 boys. It first appears in the records in 2006.

2025 had more boys named Brazen than any year since 2019.

Half of all the boys named Brazen in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

2006Busiest: 32 in 20172025
Brazen in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202520#4,856
20247#9,888
202312#6,892
202215#5,870
202110#7,582
202018#5,037
201925#4,110
201814#6,032
201732#3,437
20168#8,811
20158#8,739
201411#7,043
20139#8,113
20129#8,152
20115#12,280
20108#8,797
20095#12,486
20080–
20075#12,361
20067#9,579

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