Brecken

#4,172 for girls in 2025, 34 births · #1,252 for boys in 2025, 159 births
Given to boys 85.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
2017 · 343 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
5,037
since 1990

Brecken over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202023peak #712, 2017girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,17234#1,252159
2024#6,39418#1,126189
2023#5,75221#1,047208
2022#4,58230#928249
2021#5,39823#927244
2020#3,84137#796291
2019#7,34215#790292
2018#6,24819#740322
2017#4,38432#712343
2016#4,53131#735332
2015#5,28825#730335
2014#4,35033#769304
2013#4,24334#878239
2012#4,29634#863244
2011#4,35333#967204
2010#4,73530#1,019190
2009#4,01338#1,014193
2008#4,64732#1,399121
2007#4,67531#1,477108
2006#6,12521#1,65486
2005#6,82017#1,75275
2004#4,60129#2,07557
2003#4,30730#2,10253
2002#5,44421#1,88859
2001#6,61916#2,68135
2000#5,70519#2,86431
1999#7,71612#4,34116
1998#7,10413#4,41315
1997#6,48314#5,64210
1996#6,39214#5,53510
1995#7,51411
1994#6,67213#7,7706
1993#8,7199#5,7719
1992#11,7386
1991#11,5096
1990#7,30311#5,8238
1989#9,6817
1988#7,6919
1987#11,3255
1986#6,61210
1985#6,03111
1984#8,1537
1983#5,82411
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First appearance
1990

The first year at least five boys were named Brecken! It came in at #5,823, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1991–1992, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Brecken
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 126 spots since 2024 (#1,126#1,252)
  • 456 spots since 2020 (#796#1,252)
  • 522 spots since 2015 (#730#1,252)
  • Biggest jump: 109 spots in 2014 (#878#769)
  • Biggest drop: 131 spots in 2021 (#796#927)
Rise & fade · boys
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1990
  • Peaked 2017 at #712 (343 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2011–2022
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,396
  • Highest: 1 in 5,396 boys born in 2017 were named Brecken (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 10,743 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 55.7% of all boys named Brecken (2,805) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1998
  • Mostly girls until 1997, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s74#4,341 (1999)#5,614
2000s818#1,014 (2009)#1,891
2010s2,805#712 (2017)#820
2020s1,340#796 (2020)#1,013

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.

Brecken in 2023

girls
#5,752
21 births · 1 in 76,409 girls
boys
#1,047
208 births · 1 in 8,224 boys

Top girls' names in 2023

  1. #1Olivia15,329
  2. #2Emma13,590
  3. #3Charlotte12,638
  4. #4Amelia12,365
  5. #5Sophia11,999
  6. #6Mia11,404
  7. #7Isabella10,871
  8. #8Ava9,737
  9. #9Evelyn9,121
  10. #10Luna7,853
  11. #5,752Brecken21

Top boys' names in 2023

  1. #1Liam20,904
  2. #2Noah19,116
  3. #3Oliver14,792
  4. #4James11,739
  5. #5Elijah11,523
  6. #6Mateo11,293
  7. #7Theodore11,093
  8. #8Henry10,996
  9. #9Lucas10,890
  10. #10William10,673
  11. #1,047Brecken208
More about 2023

girls

1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 76,409 of them was named Brecken, which outranked 67.3% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Brecken
  1. #5,549Zira22
  2. #5,549Zuleyma22
  3. #5,549Zurii22
  4. #5,752Brecken21
  5. #5,752Aara21
  6. #5,752Adamari21
  7. #5,752Adayah21
  8. #5,960Aafiyah20
  9. #5,960Aaniyah20
  10. #5,960Aasiyah20

Tied with 207 names at #5,752; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. 1,640Kaeli#2,319#679
  2. 1,512Alitzel#2,388#876
  3. 1,287Emryn#2,174#887
  4. 813Adhara#1,583#770
  5. 717Azari#1,412#695
Fallers
  1. 364Addilynn#940#1,304
  2. 296India#968#1,264
  3. 259Madisyn#805#1,064
  4. 231Chanel#937#1,168
  5. 219Averi#906#1,125

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 8,224 of them was named Brecken, which outranked 92.6% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Brecken
  1. #1,044Benny209
  2. #1,044Cedric209
  3. #1,044Darian209
  4. #1,047Brecken208
  5. #1,047Blaine208
  6. #1,047Dominik208
  7. #1,047Jair208
  8. #1,052Danilo207
  9. #1,053Carlo206
  10. #1,053Crosby206

Tied with 4 names at #1,047; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. 858Izael#1,665#807
  2. 662Chozen#1,479#817
  3. 589Eiden#1,479#890
  4. 409Cassian#938#529
  5. 385Kyren#1,322#937
Fallers
  1. 384Dior#842#1,226
  2. 275Maxton#963#1,238
  3. 205Davian#967#1,172
  4. 193Braden#935#1,128
  5. 191Heath#862#1,053

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2023