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 | ||
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| 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.
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 1969
Top boys' names in 1969
More about 1969
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1,788,174 boys got a published name in 1969; 1 in 54,187 of them was named Breck, which outranked 72.3% of the 5,043 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 27.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,376Prentice34
- #1,376Reno34
- #1,376Sherwood34
- #1,396Breck33
- #1,396Alphonzo33
- #1,396Braden33
- #1,396Domenick33
- #1,414Abdul32
- #1,414Alexandro32
- #1,414Chase32
Tied with 17 names at #1,396; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 449Artis#877 → #1,326
- ↓ 410Kennedy#986 → #1,396
- ↓ 408Alfie#968 → #1,376
- ↓ 360Micky#861 → #1,221
- ↓ 356Montgomery#946 → #1,302
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.