Bree
#2,822 for girls in 2025, 60 births · Last seen for boys in 1978 at #5,772
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 273 births
- Debut · girls
- 30 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,287since 1971
Bree over time
Rank among girls' names. Bree has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,822 | 60 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,491 | 72 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,258 | 82 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,021 | 96 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,698 | 122 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,781 | 111 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,629 | 130 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,609 | 133 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,460 | 154 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,241 | 196 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,153 | 220 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,068 | 240 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,034 | 241 | — | |
| 2012 | #956 | 266 | — | |
| 2011 | #955 | 268 | — | |
| 2010 | #865 | 308 | — | |
| 2009 | #998 | 265 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,016 | 259 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,003 | 263 | — | |
| 2006 | #938 | 279 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,035 | 232 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,308 | 163 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,279 | 163 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,268 | 155 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,322 | 145 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,387 | 134 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,349 | 131 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,416 | 121 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,334 | 129 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,176 | 154 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,100 | 161 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,038 | 176 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,299 | 130 | — | |
| 1992 | #975 | 196 | — | |
| 1991 | #997 | 187 | — | |
| 1990 | #939 | 202 | — | |
| 1989 | #893 | 206 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,164 | 131 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,293 | 108 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,327 | 99 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,163 | 122 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,080 | 129 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,103 | 124 | — | |
| 1982 | #994 | 148 | — | |
| 1981 | #895 | 167 | — | |
| 1980 | #810 | 199 | — | |
| 1979 | #748 | 216 | — | |
| 1978 | #675 | 236 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #616 | 273 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #642 | 241 | — | |
| 1975 | #840 | 160 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #938 | 132 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,185 | 91 | — | |
| 1972 | #937 | 131 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,477 | 30 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bree! It came in at #2,477, and was given to 30 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971, when fewer than 31 girls a year got the name.
Where Bree is popular in 1975
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Connecticut#357 · 1 in 2,304
- Minnesota#372 · 1 in 3,451
- Washington#518 · 1 in 3,972
- Michigan#549 · 1 in 5,065
- Pennsylvania#604 · 1 in 6,505
Best ever in a state: #209 in Montana, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #357 | 6 | 1 in 2,304 |
| Minnesota | #372 | 7 | 1 in 3,451 |
| Washington | #518 | 5 | 1 in 3,972 |
| Michigan | #549 | 11 | 1 in 5,065 |
| Pennsylvania | #604 | 10 | 1 in 6,505 |
| California | #670 | 27 | 1 in 5,128 |
| Ohio | #818 | 7 | 1 in 9,905 |
| Florida | #886 | 5 | 1 in 8,267 |
| New York | #945 | 11 | 1 in 9,255 |
| Illinois | #1,179 | 5 | 1 in 13,936 |
| Texas | #1,206 | 7 | 1 in 13,674 |
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See more about Bree
- 331 spots since 2024 (#2,491 → #2,822)
- 1,041 spots since 2020 (#1,781 → #2,822)
- 1,669 spots since 2015 (#1,153 → #2,822)
- Biggest jump: 1,540 spots in 1972 (#2,477 → #937)
- Biggest drop: 324 spots in 1993 (#975 → #1,299)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1977 at #616 (273 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 1974–1982
- Highest: 1 in 5,616 girls born in 1977 were named Bree (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,788 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.2% of all girls named Bree (2,156) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,510 | #616 (1977) | #1,006 |
| 1980s | 1,433 | #810 (1980) | #1,072 |
| 1990s | 1,587 | #939 (1990) | #1,162 |
| 2000s | 2,058 | #938 (2006) | #1,155 |
| 2010s | 2,156 | #865 (2010) | #1,197 |
| 2020s | 543 | #1,698 (2021) | #2,179 |
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.
Bree in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
Top boys' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 9,112 of them was named Bree, which outranked 92.1% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 223,051 of them was named Bree, which outranked 32.0% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,941Zacharias8
- #3,941Zedrick8
- #3,941Zion8
- #4,309Bree7
- #4,309Abayomi7
- #4,309Abdias7
- #4,309Acey7
- #4,797Aaren6
- #4,797Abiel6
- #4,797Abu6
Tied with 487 names at #4,309; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.