Brecken
#4,172 for girls in 2025, 34 births · #1,252 for boys in 2025, 159 births
Given to boys 85.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 343 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,037since 1990
Brecken 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 | #4,172 | 34 | #1,252 | 159 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #1,126 | 189 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | #1,047 | 208 |
| 2022 | #4,582 | 30 | #928 | 249 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | #927 | 244 |
| 2020 | #3,841 | 37 | #796 | 291 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #790 | 292 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 | #740 | 322 |
| 2017 | #4,384 | 32 | #712 | 343 |
| 2016 | #4,531 | 31 | #735 | 332 |
| 2015 | #5,288 | 25 | #730 | 335 |
| 2014 | #4,350 | 33 | #769 | 304 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 | #878 | 239 |
| 2012 | #4,296 | 34 | #863 | 244 |
| 2011 | #4,353 | 33 | #967 | 204 |
| 2010 | #4,735 | 30 | #1,019 | 190 |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 | #1,014 | 193 |
| 2008 | #4,647 | 32 | #1,399 | 121 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | #1,477 | 108 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | #1,654 | 86 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #1,752 | 75 |
| 2004 | #4,601 | 29 | #2,075 | 57 |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 | #2,102 | 53 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | #1,888 | 59 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | #2,681 | 35 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | #2,864 | 31 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | — | |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | — | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | — | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Brecken! It came in at #5,823, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1992, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Brecken is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Dakota#112 · 1 in 342
- Nebraska#174 · 1 in 602
- North Dakota#204 · 1 in 633
- Iowa#230 · 1 in 846
- Kansas#268 · 1 in 1,009
Best ever in a state: #102 in Wyoming, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | #112 | 11 | 1 in 342 |
| Nebraska | #174 | 15 | 1 in 602 |
| North Dakota | #204 | 6 | 1 in 633 |
| Iowa | #230 | 17 | 1 in 846 |
| Kansas | #268 | 14 | 1 in 1,009 |
| Minnesota | #268 | 23 | 1 in 1,138 |
| Colorado | #348 | 17 | 1 in 1,519 |
| Oklahoma | #396 | 11 | 1 in 1,678 |
| Missouri | #420 | 14 | 1 in 2,126 |
| Wisconsin | #431 | 12 | 1 in 2,090 |
| Indiana | #472 | 14 | 1 in 2,408 |
| Washington | #711 | 8 | 1 in 4,259 |
| Maryland | #779 | 5 | 1 in 5,211 |
| Tennessee | #858 | 6 | 1 in 5,867 |
| Ohio | #869 | 9 | 1 in 6,286 |
| Illinois | #872 | 9 | 1 in 6,390 |
| Arizona | #884 | 5 | 1 in 6,688 |
| Pennsylvania | #884 | 8 | 1 in 6,983 |
| Texas | #994 | 20 | 1 in 8,727 |
| Florida | #1,045 | 11 | 1 in 8,615 |
| Michigan | #1,064 | 5 | 1 in 8,806 |
| Georgia | #1,129 | 6 | 1 in 8,657 |
| New York | #1,765 | 5 | 1 in 18,710 |
| California | #2,030 | 7 | 1 in 29,022 |
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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 Brecken
- 126 spots since 2024 (#1,126 → #1,252)
- 456 spots since 2020 (#796 → #1,252)
- 522 spots since 2015 (#730 → #1,252)
- Biggest jump: 109 spots in 2014 (#878 → #769)
- Biggest drop: 131 spots in 2021 (#796 → #927)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2017 at #712 (343 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2011–2022
- Highest: 1 in 5,396 boys born in 2017 were named Brecken (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,743 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 55.7% of all boys named Brecken (2,805) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1997, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 74 | #4,341 (1999) | #5,614 |
| 2000s | 818 | #1,014 (2009) | #1,891 |
| 2010s | 2,805 | #712 (2017) | #820 |
| 2020s | 1,340 | #796 (2020) | #1,013 |
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.
Brecken in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 111,891 of them was named Brecken, which outranked 59.3% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,025Zona16
- #7,025Zyiah16
- #7,025Zyonna16
- #7,342Brecken15
- #7,342Aasha15
- #7,342Aberdeen15
- #7,342Abi15
- #7,716Aadvika14
- #7,716Aamani14
- #7,716Aamirah14
Tied with 373 names at #7,342; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 6,145 of them was named Brecken, which outranked 94.4% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).