Brees — #7603 US boys' name
215 babies named Brees in U.S. Social Security records since 2010, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 47% of names given to boys today.
59% of everyone ever named Brees was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Brees in 2020 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Brees
The Social Security Administration has registered 215 babies named Brees between 2010 and 2024, spanning 15 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Brees currently holds the #7603 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Brees is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 38 additional births since 2010.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Brees performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 126 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Brees shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 35 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Brees in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Brees 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 215 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.
Brees at a glance
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Current rank
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Brees popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2010
- Peak year (2020)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 15 years of records
Currently ranks #7603 among boys.
215 total births across 15 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2020 with 27 births in a single year.
Brees popularity over time — girls
38 total births recorded since 2010 (Brees as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Brees accounts for 15% of total recorded use across both genders.
Brees by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 126 births that decade — 59% of Brees's all-time total
Brees decade highlights
- Peak decade 126 births
- Runner-up 89 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Brees's strongest decade
126 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 59% of all-time use.
Brees by state
Where Brees concentrates geographically — total births since 2010
Top 5 states
- Louisiana 16.3% of nationwide
- Texas 2.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Louisiana accounts for 16.3% 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, 2010–2024 (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.