Meaning not yet researched.
Brecken: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 159 in 2025. Its best rank was #712 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #712 in 2017; #1,252 in 2025. About 82% of babies named Brecken in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,252 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #712.
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Brecken: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 159 boys in 2025. Peak: #712 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 343 (2017).
In 2025, 159 US boys were named Brecken, making it the 1,252nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 126 places from #1,126 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 189 boys named Brecken in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #712, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 343. For comparison, it was #730 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Brecken, making it the 4,188th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,256 places from #6,444 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 18 girls named Brecken in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,848, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 38, in 2009. For comparison, it was #5,318 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brecken in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 5,929 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,091 babies named Brecken.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,629 US boys were named Brecken; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 343. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,743 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brecken ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #247 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Breckin (1,415 babies since 1880) and Breckyn (1,238 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brekken, Breccan and Breckon are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Brekken (507), Breccan (366), Breckon (214), Breken (172), Breckan (166), Brekyn (156), Brekin (36), Breckynn (34), Bryken (29), Brecon (11), Brekkyn (10), Brekkin (6), and more.
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 Brecken 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 10 | #247 | #119 |
| Iowa | 13 | #297 | #149 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #305 | — |
| Minnesota | 14 | #396 | #241 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #415 | #345 |
| Kansas | 6 | #533 | #282 |
| Missouri | 9 | #601 | #375 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #713 | #521 |
| Colorado | 6 | #772 | #382 |
| Indiana | 6 | #863 | #578 |
| Illinois | 8 | #946 | #905 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,257 | #1,042 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,263 | #660 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,188 | 159 | #1,252 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,444 | 189 | #1,126 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,789 | 208 | #1,048 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,605 | 249 | #928 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,425 | 244 | #928 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,848 | 291 | #796 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,423 | 292 | #791 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,294 | 322 | #741 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,410 | 343 | #712 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,547 | 332 | #735 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,318 | 335 | #730 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,370 | 304 | #769 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,260 | 239 | #878 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,310 | 244 | #863 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,374 | 204 | #967 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,759 | 190 | #1,019 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,029 | 193 | #1,015 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,667 | 121 | #1,399 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,703 | 108 | #1,479 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,165 | 86 | #1,655 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,874 | 75 | #1,756 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,616 | 57 | #2,077 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,326 | 53 | #2,106 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,481 | 59 | #1,895 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,668 | 35 | #2,689 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,739 | 31 | #2,872 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,793 | 16 | #4,372 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,166 | 15 | #4,440 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,538 | 10 | #5,698 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,446 | 10 | #5,579 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,583 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,730 | 6 | #7,893 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,813 | 9 | #5,816 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,939 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,682 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,364 | 8 | #5,893 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,798 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,767 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,504 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,660 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,066 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,251 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,857 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,676 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,861 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,267 | — | — |
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).