Brea
Brea was given to 53 girls in 2025, #3,073 among girls’ names; 5,739 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,640 Americans named Brea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 16 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brea?
#3,073 among girls’ names, 2025
Brea fell from #1,815 in 2015 to #3,073 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 64.4 to 33.0 per million.
268 babies in 1993, the peak
Brea peaked in 1993, when 268 girls were given it, #770 among girls’ names. The 53 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,073 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,129 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,985 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,767 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,132 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 84 | #2,159 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 84 | #2,200 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,308 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 97 | #2,021 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 100 | #1,986 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 115 | #1,815 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 129 | #1,653 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 125 | #1,684 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 145 | #1,524 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 148 | #1,504 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 144 | #1,548 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 171 | #1,383 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 145 | #1,574 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 169 | #1,409 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 146 | #1,507 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 141 | #1,490 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,699 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,771 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,643 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,368 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 149 | #1,290 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 154 | #1,228 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 153 | #1,204 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 155 | #1,179 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 186 | #1,008 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 177 | #1,028 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 231 | #854 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 268 | #770 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 226 | #874 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 121 | #1,349 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 124 | #1,303 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 69 | #1,894 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,270 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,791 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,849 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,907 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,051 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,752 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 60 | #1,807 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 85 | #1,434 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 80 | #1,495 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,530 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 78 | #1,461 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,539 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,749 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,912 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,841 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,030 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,813 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brea, and how old are they?
5,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,739 Americans ever recorded as Brea. The median Brea alive today is 26 years old; half are between 16 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 5,033 people named Brea (5,008 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,291 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 439 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,120 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Brea born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,838 | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brea with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,124 babies since 1880, Brea is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 130 babies (41%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brea
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Brea and names like it
- Compare Brea and BreeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBrea peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brea since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Brea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.