Bree
Bree was given to 60 girls in 2025, #2,826 among girls’ names; 9,304 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,100 Americans named Bree and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bree by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bree mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bree is “a diminutive of the female given names Breanna and Breyon.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bree?
#2,826 among girls’ names, 2025
Bree fell from #1,153 in 2015 to #2,826 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.04 per 1,000.
308 babies in 2010, the peak
Bree peaked in 2010, when 308 girls were given it, #866 among girls’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,826 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,495 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 82 | #2,260 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 96 | #2,024 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,698 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 111 | #1,783 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,632 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 133 | #1,609 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 154 | #1,461 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 196 | #1,242 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 220 | #1,153 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 240 | #1,069 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 241 | #1,035 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 266 | #956 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 268 | #955 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 308 | #866 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 265 | #1,000 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 259 | #1,016 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 263 | #1,003 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 279 | #938 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 232 | #1,035 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 163 | #1,309 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 163 | #1,278 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 155 | #1,268 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 145 | #1,321 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 134 | #1,387 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 131 | #1,349 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,416 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 129 | #1,333 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 154 | #1,175 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 161 | #1,097 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 176 | #1,036 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 130 | #1,299 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 196 | #973 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 187 | #995 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 202 | #939 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 206 | #892 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 131 | #1,165 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 108 | #1,292 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,330 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 122 | #1,163 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 129 | #1,081 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 124 | #1,104 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 148 | #997 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 167 | #896 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 199 | #810 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 216 | #748 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 236 | #675 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 273 | #616 | 0.18 |
| 1976 | 241 | #643 | 0.16 |
| 1975 | 160 | #840 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 132 | #938 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 91 | #1,186 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 131 | #937 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,484 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bree a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bree has been given almost only to girls: 17 boys in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Bree: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bree, and how old are they?
9,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,304 Americans ever recorded as Bree. The median Bree alive today is 25 years old; half are between 15 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 10,012 people named Bree (9,911 women and girls, 101 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,637 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,630 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,850 |
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 Bree born?
The states with the most babies named Bree are California, New York and Iowa, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Iowa is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,542 | 1.0× |
| New York | 5 | #2,145 | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 5 | #582 | 0.6× |
Where Bree is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bree is most over-represented in Utah: since 1971 it was given 1.9 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 girls’ 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 Bree 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,005 babies since 1880, Bree is the most given (52% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 130 babies (46%), 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 Bree
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 Bree and names like it
- Compare Bree and BreaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBree peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bree since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Bree.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bree alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.