Brea
#3,067 for girls in 2025, 53 births
- Peak · girls
- 1993 · 268 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,739since 1972
Brea over time
Rank among girls' names. Brea has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,067 | 53 |
| 2024 | #3,119 | 51 |
| 2023 | #2,975 | 56 |
| 2022 | #2,756 | 62 |
| 2021 | #2,131 | 88 |
| 2020 | #2,156 | 84 |
| 2019 | #2,193 | 84 |
| 2018 | #2,302 | 79 |
| 2017 | #2,018 | 97 |
| 2016 | #1,986 | 100 |
| 2015 | #1,814 | 115 |
| 2014 | #1,652 | 129 |
| 2013 | #1,684 | 125 |
| 2012 | #1,523 | 145 |
| 2011 | #1,503 | 148 |
| 2010 | #1,546 | 144 |
| 2009 | #1,383 | 171 |
| 2008 | #1,573 | 145 |
| 2007 | #1,409 | 169 |
| 2006 | #1,505 | 146 |
| 2005 | #1,488 | 141 |
| 2004 | #1,698 | 114 |
| 2003 | #1,769 | 106 |
| 2002 | #1,642 | 112 |
| 2001 | #1,368 | 139 |
| 2000 | #1,291 | 149 |
| 1999 | #1,229 | 154 |
| 1998 | #1,205 | 153 |
| 1997 | #1,181 | 155 |
| 1996 | #1,010 | 186 |
| 1995 | #1,031 | 177 |
| 1994 | #855 | 231 |
| 1993 | #771 | 268 |
| 1992 | #876 | 226 |
| 1991 | #1,352 | 121 |
| 1990 | #1,307 | 124 |
| 1989 | #1,898 | 69 |
| 1988 | #2,274 | 49 |
| 1987 | #1,792 | 65 |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 |
| 1985 | #1,906 | 58 |
| 1984 | #2,050 | 49 |
| 1983 | #1,751 | 61 |
| 1982 | #1,807 | 60 |
| 1981 | #1,433 | 85 |
| 1980 | #1,494 | 80 |
| 1979 | #1,530 | 76 |
| 1978 | #1,461 | 78 |
| 1977 | #1,538 | 70 |
| 1976 | #1,747 | 54 |
| 1975 | #1,906 | 47 |
| 1974 | #2,835 | 25 |
| 1973 | #3,015 | 22 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brea! It came in at #4,793, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 12 girls a year got the name.
Where Brea is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#634 · 1 in 2,968
- New Jersey#1,160 · 1 in 6,968
- Illinois#1,499 · 1 in 9,750
- Florida#1,748 · 1 in 13,409
- California#2,338 · 1 in 21,777
Best ever in a state: #223 in District of Columbia, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Wisconsin | #634 | 7 | 1 in 2,968 |
| New Jersey | #1,160 | 5 | 1 in 6,968 |
| Illinois | #1,499 | 5 | 1 in 9,750 |
| Florida | #1,748 | 6 | 1 in 13,409 |
| California | #2,338 | 8 | 1 in 21,777 |
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See more about Brea
- 52 spots since 2024 (#3,119 → #3,067)
- 911 spots since 2020 (#2,156 → #3,067)
- 1,253 spots since 2015 (#1,814 → #3,067)
- Biggest jump: 476 spots in 1992 (#1,352 → #876)
- Biggest drop: 176 spots in 1995 (#855 → #1,031)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1993 at #771 (268 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1992–1994
- Highest: 1 in 6,750 girls born in 1993 were named Brea (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,326 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.3% of all girls named Brea (1,795) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 383 | #1,461 (1978) | #2,353 |
| 1980s | 609 | #1,433 (1981) | #1,925 |
| 1990s | 1,795 | #771 (1993) | #1,082 |
| 2000s | 1,392 | #1,291 (2000) | #1,513 |
| 2010s | 1,166 | #1,503 (2011) | #1,822 |
| 2020s | 394 | #2,131 (2021) | #2,701 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brea in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 19,245 of them was named Brea, which outranked 87.7% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,135Wyatt85
- #2,135Zamira85
- #2,135Zulema85
- #2,156Brea84
- #2,156Anaisha84
- #2,156Analiyah84
- #2,156Anjali84
- #2,170Adelia83
- #2,170Alayla83
- #2,170Asiyah83
Tied with 13 names at #2,156; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.