Meaning not yet researched.
Breckin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,610 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,610 in 2002; #5,647 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Breckin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,647 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,610.
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Breckin: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,610 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 89 (2012).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Breckin, making it the 5,647th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,208 places from #7,855 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 10 boys named Breckin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,610, reached in 2002. The most boys given the name in a single year was 89, in 2012. For comparison, it was #2,056 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Breckin in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #7,461, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 15. For comparison, it was #11,042 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Breckin in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 13 babies. In all, 1,415 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 714 babies named Breckin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 265 US boys were named Breckin; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brecken (5,929 babies since 1880) and Breckyn (1,238 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Breckin 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 | — | — | 16 | #5,647 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #7,855 |
| 2023 | — | — | 19 | #5,099 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,706 | 12 | #6,888 |
| 2021 | — | — | 23 | #4,386 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,157 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,808 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,102 | 23 | #4,378 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,091 | 56 | #2,323 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,679 | 54 | #2,388 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,042 | 69 | #2,056 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,645 | 82 | #1,816 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,165 | 85 | #1,725 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,735 | 89 | #1,698 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,530 | 75 | #1,870 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,560 | 77 | #1,869 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,619 | 87 | #1,758 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,756 | 59 | #2,240 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,788 | 62 | #2,167 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,824 | 45 | #2,623 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,015 | 53 | #2,242 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,461 | 48 | #2,348 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,134 | 36 | #2,738 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,809 | 75 | #1,610 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,779 | 25 | #3,424 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #6,916 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #8,601 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,750 | 6 | #7,744 |
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).