Brea

Where Brea comes from

Brea hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1972
    First appearance
    #4,793 among girls, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1981
    Brea Grant born
    American actress
  3. 1987
    Brea Bennett born
    American pornographic actress
  4. 1993
    Peak, #771
    268 babies named Brea — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,642.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Brea Grant · American actress, born 1981
  • Brea Bennett · American pornographic actress, born 1987
  • Brea Lynn · American pornographic actress, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.