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How popular is the name Bray?
Births per year, rank history and how many Brays are alive today.
Bray (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 3256th in 2025 and given to 6 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2009, when 13 babies were given the name, the 1649th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2017, with 13 babies given the name that year. It has declined since 2009; the 2025 figure is roughly 46% of its peak. Bray is one spelling of a name also recorded as Brae; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Bray you are most likely to meet is around 9 years old. Half of all Brays born in England and Wales are between 7 and 18, and there are at least 340 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Bray - on average, only one in every 892 such rooms contains a Bray.
How many babies are named Bray each year?
Includes all spellings: Bray, Brae. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Bray spelling rank?
Where does the Brae spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Bray most popular?
Bray peaked in 2009, when 22 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Bray?
At least 340 people named Bray in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Bray?
Most living Brays are between 7 and 18; the most common age is about 9.
Is Bray becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2009 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.