Breeze
Breeze is given to both girls and boys: 24 girls and 31 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,263 among girls’ names and #3,589 among boys’, #5,285 among all names counting both); 1,146 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,130 Americans named Breeze and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Breeze by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Breeze?
#5,263 among girls’ names, 2025
Breeze rose from #5,317 in 2015 to #5,263 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 14.9 per million.
56 babies in 2024, the peak
Breeze peaked in 2024, when 56 babies were given it (27 girls, #4,917 among girls’ names). The 55 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 98% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,263 | 31 | #3,589 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,917 | 29 | #3,808 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,202 | 26 | #4,124 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,687 | 22 | #4,584 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,107 | 20 | #4,797 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,777 | 17 | #5,270 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,560 | 8 | #9,013 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,014 | 12 | #6,755 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,692 | 9 | #8,243 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,481 | 8 | #8,952 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,317 | 6 | #10,862 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,825 | 8 | #8,880 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,670 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,148 | 7 | #9,838 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,575 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,009 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,110 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,667 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,861 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,743 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,955 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,234 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,961 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,195 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,701 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,808 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,056 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,976 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,445 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,808 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,705 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,665 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,132 | 5 | #8,860 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,613 | 5 | #8,569 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,419 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,576 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,847 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,481 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,841 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,099 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,848 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,262 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,268 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,411 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,920 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,257 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,746 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,246 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,632 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,553 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,905 | under 5 |
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 Breeze a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,146 Americans recorded as Breeze, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Breeze: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Breeze, and how old are they?
1,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,146 Americans ever recorded as Breeze. The median Breeze alive today is 14 years old; half are between 6 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 825 people named Breeze (686 women and girls, 139 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 842 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 46 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 386 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 550 |
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,887 babies since 1880, Breeze is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 62 babies (89%), 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 Breeze
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 Breeze and names like it
- Compare Breeze and BreezyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBreeze peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Breeze since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Breeze.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Breeze alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.