Breken — boys' name
172 babies named Breken in U.S. Social Security records since 2002, with the highest year being 2011. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
61% of everyone ever named Breken was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Breken in 2011 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Breken
The Social Security Administration has registered 172 babies named Breken between 2002 and 2020, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Breken currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Breken performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 105 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Breken shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Breken in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Breken 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 172 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.
Breken at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Breken popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2002
- Peak year (2011)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 19 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
172 total births across 19 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2011 with 20 births in a single year.
Breken by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 105 births that decade — 61% of Breken's all-time total
Breken decade highlights
- Peak decade 105 births
- Runner-up 62 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Breken's strongest decade
105 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 61% of all-time use.
Breken by state
Where Breken concentrates geographically — total births since 2002
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Utah | | 7 | 4.1% |
7 of 172 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Utah 4.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Utah accounts for 4.1% 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, 2002–2020 (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.