Breck — #2680 US boys' name
2,607 babies named Breck in U.S. Social Security records since 1945, with the highest year being 2016. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 81% of names given to boys today.
28% of everyone ever named Breck was born in this single decade.
86 babies were named Breck in 2016 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Breck
The Social Security Administration has registered 2,607 babies named Breck between 1945 and 2024, spanning 80 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Breck currently holds the #2680 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 86 babies received it in a single year. Breck is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 444 additional births since 1970.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Breck performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 735 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Breck shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 179 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Colorado and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Breck in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Breck in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,607 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Breck at a glance
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Current rank
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Breck popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1945
- Peak year (2016)
- 86
- Annual births at peak — across 80 years of records
Currently ranks #2680 among boys.
2,607 total births across 80 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2016 with 86 births in a single year.
Breck popularity over time — girls
444 total births recorded since 1970 (Breck as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Breck accounts for 15% of total recorded use across both genders.
Breck by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 735 births that decade — 28% of Breck's all-time total
Breck decade highlights
- Peak decade 735 births
- Runner-up 366 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Breck's strongest decade
735 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Breck by state
Where Breck concentrates geographically — total births since 1945
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 179 | 6.9% |
| #2 | Colorado | | 103 | 4.0% |
| #3 | Minnesota | | 77 | 3.0% |
| #4 | California | | 41 | 1.6% |
| #5 | Oklahoma | | 28 | 1.1% |
| #6 | Florida | | 24 | 0.9% |
| #7 | Kansas | | 23 | 0.9% |
| #8 | Missouri | | 17 | 0.7% |
179 of 2,607 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 17 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 6.9% of nationwide
- Colorado 4.0% of nationwide
- Minnesota 3.0% of nationwide
- California 1.6% of nationwide
- Oklahoma 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 17 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 6.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Breck appears in 17 states. Explore state details →
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1945–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.