Brett
Brett is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 205 births. Its best rank was 69th, in 1986.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2050.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19864,731 births
- Best rank
- #69in 1986
- Since 1926
- 162,372people given the name
The story in the numbers
158,979 boys have been named Brett in the United States since 1926, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1986, with 4,731 births — 0.26% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 205 births in 2024, against 4,731 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1984, and the 1980s alone account for 26%. It has spent 75 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 21 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 3,393 girls have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Brett | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | |
| 1930s | 38 | |
| 1940s | 548 | |
| 1950s | 7,255 | |
| 1960s | 25,834 | |
| 1970s | 28,926 | |
| 1980s | 41,293 | |
| 1990s | 35,419 | |
| 2000s | 14,659 | |
| 2010s | 3,947 | |
| 2020s | 1,050 |
In 1986, its biggest year
Brett was the 69th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1986 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1986.
Names that rose and fell with Brett
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bradlypeak 1990
- Kurtispeak 1989
- Byranpeak 1986
- Darnelpeak 1986
- Geofferypeak 1990
- Derrickpeak 1980
- Christopherpeak 1984
- Seanpeak 1990
Other spellings in the data
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.