Meaning not yet researched.
Brea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #771 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #771 in 1993; #3,073 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,073 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #771.
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Brea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 girls in 2025. Peak: #771 in 1993 · most girls in one year: 268 (1993).
In 2025, 53 US girls were named Brea, making it the 3,073rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 56 places from #3,129 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 51 girls named Brea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #771, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 268. For comparison, it was #1,815 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brea in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 11 babies. In all, 5,739 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,795 babies named Brea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 754 US girls were named Brea; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 100. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,326 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bria (16,870 babies since 1880), Bree (9,304 babies since 1880) and Brie (3,160 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Breyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Breyah (181).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Brea in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,129 | — | — |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,985 | — | — |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,767 | — | — |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 2020 | 84 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 2019 | 84 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 2017 | 97 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 2016 | 100 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 2015 | 115 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 2014 | 129 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 2013 | 125 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 2012 | 145 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 2011 | 148 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 2010 | 144 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 2009 | 171 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 2008 | 145 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 2007 | 169 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 2006 | 146 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 2005 | 141 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 2000 | 149 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1999 | 154 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1998 | 153 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1997 | 155 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1996 | 186 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1995 | 177 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1994 | 231 | #855 | — | — |
| 1993 | 268 | #771 | — | — |
| 1992 | 226 | #876 | — | — |
| 1991 | 121 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1990 | 124 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1989 | 69 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 1982 | 60 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 1981 | 85 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1980 | 80 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1978 | 78 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,814 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).