Meaning not yet researched.
Brett: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 133 in 2025. Its best rank was #69 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #69 in 1986; #1,382 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Brett in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,382 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #69.
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Brett: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 133 boys in 2025. Peak: #69 in 1986 · most boys in one year: 4,729 (1986).
In 2025, 133 US boys were named Brett, making it the 1,382nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 324 places from #1,058 in 2024. That is 74 fewer than the 207 boys named Brett in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #69, reached in 1986. That year also had the most boys given the name: 4,729. For comparison, it was #745 in 2015 and #449 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brett in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1926 with 5 babies. In all, 162,513 US babies have been given the name, 2.1% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 42,339 babies named Brett.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,396 US boys were named Brett; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 333. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,843 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brett ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #677 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bret (30,051 babies since 1880) and Britt (7,626 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brit, Brette and Britte 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: Brit (775), Brette (612), Britte (18), Brete (7), Briette (6).
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 Brett 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 6 | #677 | #636 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #714 | #449 |
| Virginia | 6 | #986 | #896 |
| New York | 11 | #1,065 | #797 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,121 | #559 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,270 | #874 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,301 | #629 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,423 | #747 |
| California | 9 | #1,705 | #1,019 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,961 | 133 | #1,382 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,312 | 207 | #1,058 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,576 | 187 | #1,130 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,819 | 216 | #1,027 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,990 | 201 | #1,064 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,682 | 241 | #925 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,549 | 275 | #820 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,704 | 288 | #788 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,152 | 315 | #748 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,830 | 333 | #733 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,902 | 324 | #745 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,045 | 386 | #664 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,396 | 360 | #669 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,646 | 427 | #596 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,261 | 510 | #509 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,695 | 729 | #389 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,525 | 766 | #392 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,165 | 1,070 | #311 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,135 | 958 | #333 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,546 | 1,082 | #304 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,725 | 1,389 | #243 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,571 | 1,565 | #222 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,124 | 1,614 | #217 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,110 | 1,868 | #198 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,559 | 1,964 | #188 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,279 | 2,383 | #163 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,534 | 2,773 | #137 |
| 1998 | 69 | #2,107 | 2,886 | #133 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,072 | 3,268 | #116 |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,673 | 3,577 | #110 |
| 1995 | 117 | #1,401 | 3,567 | #106 |
| 1994 | 108 | #1,465 | 3,435 | #107 |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,353 | 3,546 | #102 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,080 | 3,823 | #97 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,960 | 4,153 | #88 |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,828 | 4,394 | #84 |
| 1989 | 122 | #1,289 | 4,428 | #81 |
| 1988 | 98 | #1,421 | 4,375 | #73 |
| 1987 | 127 | #1,156 | 4,429 | #71 |
| 1986 | 175 | #918 | 4,729 | #69 |
| 1985 | 95 | #1,365 | 4,328 | #70 |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,490 | 4,096 | #72 |
| 1983 | 85 | #1,389 | 3,975 | #73 |
| 1982 | 116 | #1,180 | 4,026 | #72 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,560 | 3,775 | #79 |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,502 | 3,128 | #96 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,570 | 2,997 | #98 |
| 1978 | 69 | #1,570 | 2,305 | #112 |
| 1977 | 78 | #1,431 | 2,489 | #109 |
| 1976 | 85 | #1,286 | 2,415 | #109 |
| 1975 | 66 | #1,529 | 2,779 | #92 |
| 1974 | 79 | #1,334 | 2,677 | #95 |
| 1973 | 58 | #1,591 | 3,030 | #88 |
| 1972 | 59 | #1,566 | 3,503 | #80 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,880 | 3,357 | #90 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,906 | 3,370 | #99 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,837 | 3,183 | #94 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,252 | 2,901 | #105 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,219 | 2,790 | #111 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,097 | 2,575 | #118 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,209 | 2,342 | #132 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,954 | 2,551 | #129 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,954 | 2,610 | #129 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,417 | 2,494 | #141 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,333 | 2,069 | #159 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,745 | 2,320 | #151 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,767 | 2,226 | #154 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,388 | 2,135 | #155 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,828 | 653 | #293 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,369 | 393 | #376 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,785 | 464 | #341 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,710 | 430 | #342 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,269 | 265 | #437 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,836 | 251 | #445 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,420 | 223 | #452 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,359 | 215 | #449 |
| 1949 | — | — | 139 | #569 |
| 1948 | — | — | 140 | #564 |
| 1947 | — | — | 94 | #707 |
| 1946 | — | — | 48 | #969 |
| 1945 | — | — | 26 | #1,299 |
| 1944 | — | — | 18 | #1,637 |
| 1943 | — | — | 25 | #1,401 |
| 1942 | — | — | 25 | #1,383 |
| 1941 | — | — | 18 | #1,641 |
| 1940 | — | — | 14 | #1,907 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,303 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,671 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,587 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,711 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,731 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,840 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,032 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,277 |
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).