Breton
- #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1963 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 456since 1959
Breton over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Breton has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #9,709 | 7 |
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| 2007 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #2,860 | 19 |
| 1987 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #3,005 | 16 |
| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
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| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | #2,627 | 10 |
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| 1963 | #2,539 | 11 |
| 1962 | #3,041 | 8 |
| 1961 | #3,356 | 7 |
| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,037 | 8 |
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First appearance
1959
The first year at least five boys were named Breton! It came in at #3,037, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1965, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Breton is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Breton in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 2,454 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #12,008)
- 3,968 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
4 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1963 at #2,539 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1964, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 100,752
- Highest: 1 in 100,752 boys born in 1988 were named Breton (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,539 in 1963, was only 1 in 184,643 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1980s
- 25.9% of all boys named Breton (118) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 8 | #3,037 (1959) | #3,037 |
| 1960s | 61 | #2,539 (1963) | #3,274 |
| 1970s | 51 | #3,694 (1973) | #4,684 |
| 1980s | 118 | #2,860 (1988) | #3,842 |
| 1990s | 90 | #4,407 (1990) | #6,251 |
| 2000s | 54 | #6,460 (2006) | #8,477 |
| 2010s | 47 | #8,040 (2015) | #10,137 |
| 2020s | 27 | #8,990 (2022) | #10,067 |
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.
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