Meaning not yet researched.
Breck: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,247 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,247 in 1962; #3,000 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Breck in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,000 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #1,247.
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Breck: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,247 in 1962 · most boys in one year: 86 (2016).
In 2025, 41 US boys were named Breck, making it the 3,000th most common boys’ name of the year, down 323 places from #2,677 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 49 boys named Breck in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,247, reached in 1962. The most boys given the name in a single year was 86, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,932 in 2015 and #2,793 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Breck in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #5,714, reached in 1985. The most girls given the name in a single year was 16, in 2005. For comparison, it was #16,895 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Breck in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 5 babies. In all, 3,092 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 788 babies named Breck.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 704 US boys were named Breck; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 86. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Breck ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #827 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bryce (127,695 babies since 1880) and Brice (16,116 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brek and Brekke 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: Brek (395), Brekke (7).
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 Breck in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #827 | #646 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,324 | #1,661 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 41 | #3,000 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,416 | 49 | #2,677 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,376 | 81 | #1,929 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,464 | 67 | #2,170 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,431 | 81 | #1,886 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,267 | 83 | #1,799 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,118 | 73 | #2,004 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,101 | 63 | #2,191 |
| 2017 | — | — | 80 | #1,845 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,126 | 86 | #1,774 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,895 | 75 | #1,932 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,308 | 79 | #1,858 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,990 | 70 | #1,969 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,408 | 67 | #2,050 |
| 2011 | — | — | 69 | #1,988 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,559 | 73 | #1,927 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,761 | 52 | #2,455 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,776 | 48 | #2,592 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,949 | 49 | #2,537 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,722 | 45 | #2,622 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,201 | 34 | #3,025 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,894 | 36 | #2,850 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,788 | 29 | #3,203 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,102 | 34 | #2,761 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,804 | 19 | #4,144 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,534 | 20 | #3,931 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,306 | 16 | #4,371 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,610 | 9 | #6,381 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,435 | 16 | #4,081 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,773 | 15 | #4,203 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,582 | 17 | #3,718 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,713 | 18 | #3,609 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,137 | 19 | #3,380 |
| 1992 | — | — | 20 | #3,235 |
| 1991 | — | — | 29 | #2,412 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,919 | 21 | #2,967 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,852 | 21 | #2,918 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,318 | 21 | #2,695 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,428 | 29 | #2,061 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,832 | 18 | #2,792 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,714 | 25 | #2,177 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,479 | 23 | #2,241 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,856 | 9 | #4,170 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,965 | 13 | #3,310 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,860 | 20 | #2,424 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,848 | 12 | #3,444 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,375 | 18 | #2,592 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,444 | 15 | #2,808 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,933 | 20 | #2,280 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,290 |
| 1975 | — | — | 16 | #2,549 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,315 | 13 | #2,817 |
| 1973 | — | — | 29 | #1,614 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,363 | 27 | #1,682 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,474 | 26 | #1,748 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,107 | 34 | #1,440 |
| 1969 | — | — | 33 | #1,398 |
| 1968 | — | — | 24 | #1,615 |
| 1967 | — | — | 34 | #1,291 |
| 1966 | — | — | 28 | #1,453 |
| 1965 | — | — | 26 | #1,518 |
| 1964 | — | — | 24 | #1,619 |
| 1963 | — | — | 38 | #1,256 |
| 1962 | — | — | 39 | #1,247 |
| 1961 | — | — | 32 | #1,409 |
| 1960 | — | — | 36 | #1,321 |
| 1959 | — | — | 36 | #1,304 |
| 1958 | — | — | 29 | #1,449 |
| 1957 | — | — | 28 | #1,491 |
| 1956 | — | — | 29 | #1,451 |
| 1955 | — | — | 13 | #2,227 |
| 1954 | — | — | 17 | #1,897 |
| 1953 | — | — | 23 | #1,597 |
| 1952 | — | — | 16 | #1,945 |
| 1951 | — | — | 20 | #1,687 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,793 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,056 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,805 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,412 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,212 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,386 |
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).