Breena — girls' name
893 babies named Breena in U.S. Social Security records since 1956, with the highest year being 2007. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
32% of everyone ever named Breena was born in this single decade.
41 babies were named Breena in 2007 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Breena
The Social Security Administration has registered 893 babies named Breena between 1956 and 2022, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Breena currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 41 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Breena performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 288 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Breena shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 84 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Breena in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Breena 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 893 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.
Breena at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Breena popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1956
- Peak year (2007)
- 41
- Annual births at peak — across 67 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
893 total births across 67 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2007 with 41 births in a single year.
Breena by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 288 births that decade — 32% of Breena's all-time total
Breena decade highlights
- Peak decade 288 births
- Runner-up 212 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Breena's strongest decade
288 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Breena by state
Where Breena concentrates geographically — total births since 1956
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 84 | 9.4% |
| #2 | Texas | | 5 | 0.6% |
84 of 893 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 9.4% of nationwide
- Texas 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 9.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1956–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.