Brecken
Brecken is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 187 births. Its best rank was 712th, in 2017.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1870.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2017343 births
- Best rank
- #712in 2017
- Since 1990
- 5,734people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,876 boys have been named Brecken in the United States since 1990, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 343 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 58%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 858 girls have also been given it, 15% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2017, its biggest year
Brecken was the 712th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Brecken
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rugerpeak 2016
- Sawyerpeak 2015
- Paxtonpeak 2016
- Kasenpeak 2019
- Finniganpeak 2016
- Graysenpeak 2016
- Maxsonpeak 2016
- Maxtonpeak 2017
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.