Meaning not yet researched.
Bree: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #616 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #616 in 1977; #2,826 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bree in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,826 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #616.
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Bree: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 girls in 2025. Peak: #616 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 308 (2010).
In 2025, 60 US girls were named Bree, making it the 2,826th most common girls’ name of the year, down 331 places from #2,495 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 72 girls named Bree in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #616, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 308, in 2010. For comparison, it was #1,153 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bree in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 30 babies. In all, 9,304 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,156 babies named Bree.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,156 US girls were named Bree; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 196. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,788 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bree ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #582 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Briana (97,326 babies since 1880), Brianne (20,504 babies since 1880), Brie (3,160 babies since 1880) and Bria (16,870 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Breeya, Breeah and Brehea are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Breeya (53), Breeah (46), Brehea (5).
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 Bree in the open dataset we use.
Bree is listed as a nickname for Aubrey, Breanna, Breeanna.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 5 | #582 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,145 | #1,638 |
| California | 7 | #2,542 | #1,147 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,826 | — | — |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 2023 | 82 | #2,260 | — | — |
| 2022 | 96 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 2020 | 111 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 2018 | 133 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 2017 | 154 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 2016 | 196 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 2015 | 220 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 2014 | 240 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 2013 | 241 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 2012 | 266 | #956 | — | — |
| 2011 | 268 | #955 | — | — |
| 2010 | 308 | #866 | — | — |
| 2009 | 265 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 2008 | 259 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 2007 | 263 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 2006 | 279 | #938 | — | — |
| 2005 | 232 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 2004 | 163 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 2003 | 163 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 2002 | 155 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 2001 | 145 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 2000 | 134 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1999 | 131 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1997 | 129 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1996 | 154 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1995 | 161 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1994 | 176 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1993 | 130 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1992 | 196 | #975 | — | — |
| 1991 | 187 | #997 | — | — |
| 1990 | 202 | #941 | — | — |
| 1989 | 206 | #895 | — | — |
| 1988 | 131 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1987 | 108 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1985 | 122 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1984 | 129 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1983 | 124 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1982 | 148 | #997 | — | — |
| 1981 | 167 | #896 | — | — |
| 1980 | 199 | #810 | — | — |
| 1979 | 216 | #748 | — | — |
| 1978 | 236 | #675 | 5 | #5,905 |
| 1977 | 273 | #616 | 5 | #5,944 |
| 1976 | 241 | #643 | — | — |
| 1975 | 160 | #840 | 7 | #4,369 |
| 1974 | 132 | #938 | — | — |
| 1973 | 91 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1972 | 131 | #937 | — | — |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,484 | — | — |
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).