Brekken
Brekken was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,355 among boys’ names; 507 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brekken by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brekken?
#8,355 among boys’ names, 2025
Brekken fell from #3,698 in 2015 to #8,355 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 5.3 per million.
40 babies in 2016, the peak
Brekken peaked in 2016, when 40 babies were given it (35 boys, #3,238 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,355 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,141 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,471 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,194 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 19 | #4,953 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,344 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,821 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,541 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,340 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,238 | 18.4 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,698 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 37 | #3,043 | 19.3 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,131 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,378 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,521 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,695 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,834 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,274 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,951 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,823 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,268 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,226 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,783 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,879 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #6,993 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brekken a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 507 Americans recorded as Brekken, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brekken: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brekken, and how old are they?
An estimated 502 Americans named Brekken and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 463 people named Brekken (80 women and girls, 383 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 412 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Brekken?
Brekken is a less common spelling of Brecken: SSA has recorded 507 Brekken and 5,929 Brecken since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,403 babies since 1880, Brekken is the third most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 228 babies (3.9%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Brekken
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 Brekken and names like it
- Compare Brekken and BreckenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrekken peaked in 2016.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brekken since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Brekken.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brekken alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.