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 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Montana#209 · 1 in 878
- Washington#282 · 1 in 1,639
- Iowa#286 · 1 in 2,065
- Oregon#315 · 1 in 1,931
- Utah#329 · 1 in 1,896
Best ever in a state: #209 in Montana, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | #209 | 5 | 1 in 878 |
| Washington | #282 | 14 | 1 in 1,639 |
| Iowa | #286 | 9 | 1 in 2,065 |
| Oregon | #315 | 8 | 1 in 1,931 |
| Utah | #329 | 8 | 1 in 1,896 |
| Colorado | #418 | 6 | 1 in 2,883 |
| Arizona | #522 | 5 | 1 in 3,277 |
| Wisconsin | #533 | 5 | 1 in 5,793 |
| Michigan | #577 | 11 | 1 in 5,232 |
| Pennsylvania | #612 | 11 | 1 in 6,000 |
| California | #624 | 33 | 1 in 4,646 |
| Missouri | #642 | 5 | 1 in 6,131 |
| Indiana | #655 | 5 | 1 in 6,959 |
| Louisiana | #669 | 6 | 1 in 4,586 |
| Ohio | #685 | 9 | 1 in 7,662 |
| New Jersey | #705 | 6 | 1 in 6,045 |
| North Carolina | #721 | 5 | 1 in 6,474 |
| New York | #891 | 12 | 1 in 8,194 |
| Texas | #928 | 12 | 1 in 8,616 |
| Illinois | #1,104 | 6 | 1 in 11,817 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 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 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 6,491 of them was named Bree, which outranked 94.1% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 328,367 of them was named Bree, which outranked 14.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 990 names at #5,772; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.