Breckin
Breckin was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,645 among boys’ names; 1,415 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,400 Americans named Breckin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 11 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Breckin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Breckin?
#5,645 among boys’ names, 2025
Breckin fell from #2,056 in 2015 to #5,645 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 36.0 to 9.4 per million.
96 babies in 2009, the peak
Breckin peaked in 2009, when 96 babies were given it (87 boys, #1,757 among boys’ names). The 16 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 16 | #5,645 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 10 | #7,850 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 19 | #5,094 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,701 | 12 | #6,883 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 23 | #4,382 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 24 | #4,153 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 28 | #3,805 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,097 | 23 | #4,374 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,087 | 56 | #2,322 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,674 | 54 | #2,388 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,037 | 69 | #2,056 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,640 | 82 | #1,816 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,160 | 85 | #1,724 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,728 | 89 | #1,697 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,525 | 75 | #1,869 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,554 | 77 | #1,868 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,614 | 87 | #1,757 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,751 | 59 | #2,239 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,784 | 62 | #2,167 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,819 | 45 | #2,622 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,009 | 53 | #2,238 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,456 | 48 | #2,344 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,127 | 36 | #2,734 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,803 | 75 | #1,607 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,772 | 25 | #3,419 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 9 | #6,908 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #8,593 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,744 | 6 | #7,738 |
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 Breckin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,415 Americans recorded as Breckin, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 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 Breckin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Breckin, and how old are they?
1,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,415 Americans ever recorded as Breckin. The median Breckin alive today is 15 years old; half are between 11 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,254 people named Breckin (169 women and girls, 1,085 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,301 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 836 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 551 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 8,769 babies since 1880, Breckin is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 228 babies (7.0%), again the second 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 Breckin
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 Breckin and names like it
- Compare Breckin and BreckenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBreckin peaked in 2009.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Breckin since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Breckin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Breckin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.