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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 340,215 of them was named Breck, which outranked 13.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,470 names at #15,682; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 28,828 of them was named Breck, which outranked 84.5% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,167Othniel64
- #2,167Rye64
- #2,167Taim64
- #2,189Breck63
- #2,189Bakari63
- #2,189Bennet63
- #2,189Flint63
- #2,210Aadvik62
- #2,210Aayansh62
- #2,210Athan62
Tied with 20 names at #2,189; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.