Brecken — #1133 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Brecken

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,876 babies named Brecken between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brecken currently holds the #1133 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 343 babies received it in a single year. Brecken is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 858 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brecken performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,805 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Brecken shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 390 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Iowa. In total, SSA state-level files list Brecken in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brecken 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 4,876 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.