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 1982
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#465 · 1 in 3,268
- Missouri#637 · 1 in 6,437
- Washington#663 · 1 in 5,503
- Michigan#678 · 1 in 7,201
- Pennsylvania#719 · 1 in 7,767
Best ever in a state: #209 in Montana, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #465 | 5 | 1 in 3,268 |
| Missouri | #637 | 5 | 1 in 6,437 |
| Washington | #663 | 5 | 1 in 5,503 |
| Michigan | #678 | 8 | 1 in 7,201 |
| Pennsylvania | #719 | 9 | 1 in 7,767 |
| California | #882 | 23 | 1 in 8,075 |
| Illinois | #910 | 8 | 1 in 9,303 |
| Texas | #980 | 13 | 1 in 9,994 |
| Ohio | #1,023 | 5 | 1 in 14,294 |
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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 1982
Top girls' names in 1982
More about 1982
girls
1,693,325 girls got a published name in 1982; 1 in 11,441 of them was named Bree, which outranked 91.9% of the 12,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #988Ginny149
- #988Kacy149
- #988Maren149
- #994Bree148
- #994Adria148
- #994Arianna148
- #994Ayesha148
- #1,005Brian147
- #1,005Chaya147
- #1,005Kourtney147
Tied with 10 names at #994; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.