Brean
Brean was last recorded in 2005, when 11 babies were given it; 154 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brean by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brean?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,779, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1979, the peak
Brean peaked in 1979, when 14 girls were given it, #4,869 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #14,779 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,800 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,666 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,008 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,862 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,683 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,611 | 3.8 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,573 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,003 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,974 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 7 | #8,621 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,435 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,475 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,763 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,351 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,951 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,869 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,666 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,930 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brean a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 154 Americans recorded as Brean, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brean: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brean, and how old are they?
An estimated 149 Americans named Brean and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 31 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 301 people named Brean (206 women and girls, 95 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 151 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Brean rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Brean?
Brean is a less common spelling of Breann: SSA has recorded 154 Brean and 5,816 Breann since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,597 babies since 1880, Brean is the third most given (2.0% of them).
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 Brean
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 Brean and names like it
- Compare Brean and BreannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBrean peaked in 1979.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Brean.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brean alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.