Brae is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to girls than to boys.
At least in the US, the name Brae is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Brae each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Brae will meet someone with the same name. So, Brae is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Brae. Children named Brae have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 8,412 Brae ranked higher than ever before in 1995. By comparison, there have been 105 years in which the first name Brae has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2007. In general, parents name their babies Brae only once in a blue moon, so kids and adults with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Brae was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Brae continues to be a precious jewel: 11 newborns were named Brae that year, ranking #15,186 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Brae, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 3.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With four letters, the name Brae is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.7%, B as the first letter in given names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Brae and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Brae, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Apple
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Brae
Brae
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
R
A
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
R
A
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Brae sounds like this:
