Breck
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #10,271 · #2,991 for boys in 2025, 41 births
Given to boys 85.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1962 · 39 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,648since 1945
Breck over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,991 | 41 | |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #2,674 | 49 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #1,928 | 81 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #2,168 | 67 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #1,884 | 81 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #1,798 | 83 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #2,001 | 73 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #2,189 | 63 |
| 2017 | — | #1,844 | 80 | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,774 | 86 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #1,931 | 75 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #1,857 | 79 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #1,964 | 70 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #2,049 | 67 |
| 2011 | — | #1,988 | 69 | |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #1,924 | 73 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #2,451 | 52 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #2,583 | 48 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #2,533 | 49 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #2,621 | 45 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #3,022 | 34 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #2,843 | 36 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #2,755 | 34 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #4,059 | 16 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #3,368 | 19 |
| 1992 | — | #3,220 | 20 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,406 | 29 | |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #2,952 | 21 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | #2,682 | 21 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | #2,057 | 29 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #2,779 | 18 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #2,171 | 25 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #2,232 | 23 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | #2,418 | 20 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #2,568 | 18 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #2,270 | 20 |
| 1976 | — | #3,264 | 11 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,540 | 16 | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | — | #1,612 | 29 | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | #1,680 | 27 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #1,745 | 26 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #1,435 | 34 |
| 1969 | — | #1,396 | 33 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,614 | 24 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,287 | 34 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,450 | 28 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,513 | 26 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,615 | 24 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,255 | 38 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,242 | 39 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,406 | 32 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,320 | 36 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,302 | 36 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,446 | 29 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,487 | 28 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,443 | 29 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,219 | 13 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,887 | 17 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,592 | 23 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,939 | 16 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,683 | 20 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Breck! It came in at #3,338, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1947, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Breck is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,202 · 1 in 30,027
Best ever in a state: #371 in Colorado, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,202 | 5 | 1 in 30,027 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Breck
- 317 spots since 2024 (#2,674 → #2,991)
- 1,193 spots since 2020 (#1,798 → #2,991)
- 1,060 spots since 2015 (#1,931 → #2,991)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1962 at #1,242 (39 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,796 boys born in 2020 were named Breck (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 41,660 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,242 in 1962, was only 1 in 53,045 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.8% of all boys named Breck (735) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1998, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 32 | #2,788 (1948) | #3,138 |
| 1950s | 219 | #1,302 (1959) | #1,777 |
| 1960s | 314 | #1,242 (1962) | #1,410 |
| 1970s | 209 | #1,435 (1970) | #2,271 |
| 1980s | 191 | #2,057 (1987) | #2,809 |
| 1990s | 180 | #2,406 (1991) | #3,813 |
| 2000s | 366 | #2,451 (2009) | #3,004 |
| 2010s | 735 | #1,774 (2016) | #1,952 |
| 2020s | 402 | #1,798 (2020) | #2,241 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Breck in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 253,541 of them was named Breck, which outranked 24.6% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,558Yukiko7
- #6,558Zorina7
- #6,558Zully7
- #7,292Breck6
- #7,292Adonia6
- #7,292Afua6
- #7,292Aggie6
- #8,292Aarona5
- #8,292Abigale5
- #8,292Adabel5
Tied with 999 names at #7,292; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 60,060 of them was named Breck, which outranked 70.8% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,648Sherrod28
- #1,648Ulises28
- #1,648Waymon28
- #1,680Breck27
- #1,680Amit27
- #1,680Athanasios27
- #1,680Chaka27
- #1,721Adolphus26
- #1,721Adrien26
- #1,721Alford26
Tied with 40 names at #1,680; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.