Brick
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- BRIK
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Brick is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “brick”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Brick mean?
English: English word, used as a nickname
“brick”
Brick Pollitt is the troubled former football star in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Is Brick a girl's or a boy's name?
Brick is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Brick in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #9,710among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Brick, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2011, with 24 boys. It first appears in the records in 1951.
Half of all the boys named Brick in the US since 1880 were born between 1980 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Brick in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,766 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,522 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,344 |
| 2015 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,303 |
| 2013 | 14 | #5,919 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,620 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,108 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,081 |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,013 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,586 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,899 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,292 |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,941 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,636 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,524 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,259 |
| 1996 | 6 | #7,964 |
| 1995 | 9 | #5,922 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,809 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,414 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,816 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,158 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,264 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,453 |
| 1986 | 6 | #5,920 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,780 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,493 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,769 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,162 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,462 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,225 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,052 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,438 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,905 |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,672 |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,039 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,898 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,075 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,032 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,816 |
| 1957 | 0 | – |
| 1956 | 0 | – |
| 1955 | 0 | – |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,450 |
| 1953 | 0 | – |
| 1952 | 0 | – |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,362 |
Names like Brick
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Briggs Ridge Brayden Finn Deacon Bridger Brody Case Briar Cannon Colt Boden
Names related to Brick
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Brick: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/brick, updated 20 October 2026.