# Brutus (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/brutus/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbɹutəs/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 47 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 47 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Latin Brutus.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 | 1,341 |
| 1901 | 5 | 1,070 |
| 1916 | 5 | 3,982 |
| 1921 | 5 | 4,416 |
| 1923 | 6 | 3,871 |
| 1929 | 5 | 4,035 |
| 1947 | 5 | 3,782 |
| 1950 | 6 | 3,367 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12,437 |

## People named Brutus

- Brutus Hamilton, Athletics track and field athlete and coach, college athletics administrator (1900-1970)
- Junius Brutus Booth, English stage actor (1796–1852)
- Brutus de Villeroi, French submarine pioneer
- Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician (1857-1904)
- Antoine Bussy, French chemist (1794-1882)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.