Given name & surname · also Norman
Brace
“arm”
Brace is a surname from Norman, ultimately from Old French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Brace goes back to Old French brace, meaning “arm.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Brace comes from Norman, and ultimately from Old French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brace through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 121
- 121 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 286 as a first name in 2020; 4,729 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Brace
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Brace, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Brasher
Brasher is a surname from Old French.
>99% boys
Camm
Camm is a surname with more than one origin.
>99% boys
Truss
“bundle, pack”
>99% boys
Piers
“as solid and strong as a rock”
>99% boys
Forge
“forge, furnace”
>99% boys
Mister
Mister is a given name from Old French, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
>99% boys
Biden
“button”
>99% boys
Bryce
Bryce is a masculine given name from Celtic.
96% boys · 4% girls