Given name & surname
Brais
Brais is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Galician.
Original LatinBlasius
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Galician usage, Brais developed from Blasius.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2015. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brais through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 18
- 18 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 7 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 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 276 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.
Brais’s family of names
In Galician usage, Brais developed from the Latin form Blasius. In Galician usage, Brais has a conventional equivalent in the English form Blaise. In Galician usage, Brais has a conventional equivalent in the English form Blasius.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Brais has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Brais comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Blasiusroot · Latin, English
- BlaiseEnglish
- Blasequivalent
- Biagioequivalent
- Blažejequivalent
- Błażejequivalent
- Blažequivalent
- Balázsequivalent
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People named Brais
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