Brecken
Brecken is given to both girls and boys: 34 girls and 159 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,187 among girls’ names and #1,252 among boys’, #2,271 among all names counting both); 5,929 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,870 Americans named Brecken and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brecken by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brecken mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brecken is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brecken?
#1,252 among boys’ names, 2025
Brecken fell from #730 in 2015 to #1,252 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.17 to 0.09 per 1,000.
375 babies in 2017, the peak
Brecken peaked in 2017, when 375 babies were given it (343 boys, #712 among boys’ names). The 193 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 51% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,187 | 159 | #1,252 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,441 | 189 | #1,126 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,784 | 208 | #1,048 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,602 | 249 | #928 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,421 | 244 | #928 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,847 | 291 | #796 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,419 | 292 | #791 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,290 | 322 | #741 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,408 | 343 | #712 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,546 | 332 | #735 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,316 | 335 | #730 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,368 | 304 | #769 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,258 | 239 | #878 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,308 | 244 | #863 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,373 | 204 | #967 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,758 | 190 | #1,019 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,028 | 193 | #1,015 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,666 | 121 | #1,399 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,702 | 108 | #1,479 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,163 | 86 | #1,655 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,869 | 75 | #1,753 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,612 | 57 | #2,073 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,322 | 53 | #2,102 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,477 | 59 | #1,891 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,663 | 35 | #2,684 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,734 | 31 | #2,866 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,787 | 16 | #4,367 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,160 | 15 | #4,436 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,533 | 10 | #5,692 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,441 | 10 | #5,572 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,578 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,724 | 6 | #7,887 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,807 | 9 | #5,810 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,932 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,675 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,358 | 8 | #5,886 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,792 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,762 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,499 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,657 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,064 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,247 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,855 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,672 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,859 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,265 | under 5 |
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 Brecken a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,929 Americans recorded as Brecken, 15% are girls and 85% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brecken: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brecken, and how old are they?
5,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,929 Americans ever recorded as Brecken. The median Brecken alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 4,297 people named Brecken (715 women and girls, 3,582 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,470 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 172 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,830 |
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 Brecken born?
The states with the most babies named Brecken are Texas, Minnesota and Iowa, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota and Iowa are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,257 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 14 | #396 | 3.7× |
| Iowa | 13 | #297 | 5.0× |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #415 | 2.4× |
| Nebraska | 10 | #247 | 6.3× |
| Missouri | 9 | #601 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 8 | #946 | 0.7× |
| Kansas | 6 | #533 | 4.1× |
| Colorado | 6 | #772 | 2.3× |
| Indiana | 6 | #863 | 1.0× |
Where Brecken is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brecken is most over-represented in Nebraska: since 1976 it was given 6.3 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 Brecken 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 8,769 babies since 1880, Brecken is the most given (68% of them). In 2025 it was given to 193 of their 228 babies (85%), 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 Brecken
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 Brecken and names like it
- Compare Brecken and BreckinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrecken peaked in 2017.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brecken since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Brecken.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brecken alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.