Brin
Brin is a name with a single cultural origin: Slovene.
- Slovene
Meaning & Origin of Brin
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Brin is a name with a single cultural origin: Slovene.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Slovene
The Story of Brin
As a girl name
Brin first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1978, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2003: 21 births, good for #5,586 nationwide. About 33% of every Brin on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Brin last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 413 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
Brin first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a boy name in 1980, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1986: 8 births, good for #4,853 nationwide. About 84% of every Brin on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Brin last appeared in the published SSA data in 1998, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 37 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
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About the name Brin
Brin is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1978 and has accumulated 413 births in the dataset. Brin's peak popularity came in 2003 when it ranked #5,586. Use the chart and map above to compare Brin's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.