Bretton
#7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · boys
- 1987 · 36 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,106since 1958
Bretton over time
Rank among boys' names. Bretton has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #4,263 | 23 |
| 2013 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #4,251 | 23 |
| 2011 | #3,605 | 29 |
| 2010 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #5,278 | 15 |
| 2004 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #3,838 | 22 |
| 2002 | #3,670 | 23 |
| 2001 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | #2,665 | 32 |
| 1998 | #3,390 | 22 |
| 1997 | #2,750 | 28 |
| 1996 | #2,911 | 25 |
| 1995 | #2,210 | 36 |
| 1994 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1993 | #2,577 | 28 |
| 1992 | #2,303 | 32 |
| 1991 | #2,544 | 27 |
| 1990 | #2,780 | 23 |
| 1989 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | #2,305 | 26 |
| 1987 | #1,793 | 36 |
| 1986 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | #1,975 | 29 |
| 1984 | #2,159 | 24 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #1,983 | 22 |
| 1973 | #2,716 | 13 |
| 1972 | #2,659 | 13 |
| 1971 | #2,464 | 15 |
| 1970 | #2,399 | 15 |
| 1969 | #2,308 | 14 |
| 1968 | #2,109 | 15 |
| 1967 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
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| 1961 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #3,077 | 8 |
| 1959 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #2,506 | 11 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bretton! It came in at #2,506, and was given to 11 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1965, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Bretton
- 3,744 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #7,194)
- 308 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #7,194)
- 128 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #7,194)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 1987 at #1,793 (36 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 51,861 boys born in 1987 were named Bretton (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.5% of all boys named Bretton (282) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 19 | #2,506 (1958) | #2,772 |
| 1960s | 65 | #2,109 (1968) | #2,978 |
| 1970s | 124 | #1,983 (1974) | #3,126 |
| 1980s | 217 | #1,793 (1987) | #2,671 |
| 1990s | 282 | #2,210 (1995) | #2,669 |
| 2000s | 174 | #2,993 (2000) | #5,055 |
| 2010s | 173 | #3,605 (2011) | #5,563 |
| 2020s | 52 | #6,698 (2021) | #8,927 |
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.
Bretton in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 52,881 of them was named Bretton, which outranked 78.6% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,178Tylan37
- #2,178Tyriq37
- #2,178Zacharias37
- #2,210Bretton36
- #2,210Abdulrahman36
- #2,210Antwain36
- #2,210Brittany36
- #2,253Andrey35
- #2,253Argenis35
- #2,253Blas35
Tied with 42 names at #2,210; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.