Breck
Breck was given to 41 boys in 2025, #2,999 among boys’ names; 3,092 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,880 Americans named Breck and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Breck by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Breck?
#2,999 among boys’ names, 2025
Breck fell from #1,932 in 2015 to #2,999 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 39.1 to 24.0 per million.
93 babies in 2016, the peak
Breck peaked in 2016, when 93 babies were given it (86 boys, #1,774 among boys’ names). The 41 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 41 | #2,999 | |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,411 | 49 | #2,677 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,371 | 81 | #1,929 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,459 | 67 | #2,169 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,426 | 81 | #1,885 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,262 | 83 | #1,799 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,113 | 73 | #2,003 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,096 | 63 | #2,190 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 80 | #1,845 | |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,121 | 86 | #1,774 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #16,889 | 75 | #1,932 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,302 | 79 | #1,858 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,985 | 70 | #1,968 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,401 | 67 | #2,049 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 69 | #1,987 | |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,553 | 73 | #1,926 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,755 | 52 | #2,454 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,771 | 48 | #2,591 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,945 | 49 | #2,537 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,717 | 45 | #2,621 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,196 | 34 | #3,021 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,889 | 36 | #2,846 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,783 | 29 | #3,198 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,096 | 34 | #2,757 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,797 | 19 | #4,138 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,527 | 20 | #3,925 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,300 | 16 | #4,366 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,604 | 9 | #6,374 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,430 | 16 | #4,076 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,768 | 15 | #4,197 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,577 | 17 | #3,712 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,707 | 18 | #3,603 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,131 | 19 | #3,374 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 20 | #3,229 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 29 | #2,406 | |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,913 | 21 | #2,961 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,846 | 21 | #2,912 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,313 | 21 | #2,690 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,423 | 29 | #2,057 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,828 | 18 | #2,789 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,712 | 25 | #2,176 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,477 | 23 | #2,240 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,854 | 9 | #4,168 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,963 | 13 | #3,309 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,858 | 20 | #2,423 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,847 | 12 | #3,443 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,372 | 18 | #2,591 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,443 | 15 | #2,807 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,931 | 20 | #2,280 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 11 | #3,288 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 16 | #2,547 | |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,314 | 13 | #2,815 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 29 | #1,614 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,361 | 27 | #1,682 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,472 | 26 | #1,747 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,106 | 34 | #1,439 |
| 1969 | under 5 | 33 | #1,398 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 24 | #1,614 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 34 | #1,290 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 28 | #1,452 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 26 | #1,517 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 24 | #1,618 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 38 | #1,255 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 39 | #1,246 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 32 | #1,408 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 36 | #1,320 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 36 | #1,303 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 29 | #1,448 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 28 | #1,490 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 29 | #1,450 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 13 | #2,226 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 17 | #1,896 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 23 | #1,596 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 16 | #1,944 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 20 | #1,686 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 8 | #2,792 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 7 | #3,055 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 8 | #2,804 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,410 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 6 | #3,211 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,385 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Breck a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,092 Americans recorded as Breck, 14% are girls and 86% boys. In 2025 it went to 41 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Breck: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Breck, and how old are they?
2,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 3,092 Americans ever recorded as Breck. The median Breck alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 2,451 people named Breck (419 women and girls, 2,032 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,520 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 293 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 375 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 439 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 776 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 996 |
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 Breck born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,324 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #827 | 1.4× |
Where Breck is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Breck is most over-represented in Colorado: since 1945 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Breck 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,737 babies since 1880, Breck is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 41 babies (100%), again the 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 Breck
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 Breck and names like it
- Compare Breck and BrekBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBreck peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Breck since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Breck.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Breck alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.