Breon
Breon was given to 32 boys in 2025, #3,524 among boys’ names; 2,757 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,670 Americans named Breon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 17 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Breon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Breon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Breon is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Breon?
#3,524 among boys’ names, 2025
Breon fell from #2,973 in 2015 to #3,524 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.3 to 18.7 per million.
119 babies in 1994, the peak
Breon peaked in 1994, when 119 babies were given it (107 boys, #1,075 among boys’ names). The 32 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 32 | #3,524 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 24 | #4,336 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 26 | #4,125 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 27 | #3,998 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 38 | #3,131 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 44 | #2,765 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 35 | #3,266 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 41 | #2,896 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 50 | #2,534 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 29 | #3,695 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 39 | #2,973 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,001 | 44 | #2,712 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 42 | #2,768 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,730 | 45 | #2,682 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 58 | #2,234 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 62 | #2,146 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,940 | 67 | #2,052 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,993 | 59 | #2,240 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 55 | #2,341 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,574 | 40 | #2,838 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 47 | #2,430 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,470 | 47 | #2,378 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,159 | 38 | #2,621 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,401 | 43 | #2,375 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,854 | 44 | #2,275 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,638 | 47 | #2,139 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,789 | 60 | #1,722 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,426 | 53 | #1,848 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,831 | 88 | #1,293 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,812 | 65 | #1,533 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,295 | 87 | #1,239 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,159 | 107 | #1,075 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,301 | 80 | #1,262 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,863 | 91 | #1,154 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,636 | 94 | #1,124 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,914 | 86 | #1,171 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,870 | 81 | #1,181 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,485 | 63 | #1,293 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,957 | 45 | #1,562 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,685 | 45 | #1,493 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,438 | 39 | #1,621 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,869 | 42 | #1,483 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 38 | #1,564 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,676 | 27 | #2,005 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,593 | 16 | #2,793 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,259 | 23 | #2,222 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,748 | 18 | #2,592 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 11 | #3,423 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 21 | #2,213 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 12 | #3,115 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 12 | #3,093 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 11 | #3,152 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 9 | #3,377 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 9 | #3,398 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,292 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #4,008 |
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 Breon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,757 Americans recorded as Breon, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 32 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 Breon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Breon, and how old are they?
2,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,757 Americans ever recorded as Breon. The median Breon alive today is 29 years old; half are between 17 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,882 people named Breon (298 women and girls, 1,584 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,518 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 139 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 939 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 472 |
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).
Where are babies named Breon born?
The states with the most babies named Breon are Florida, Virginia and Illinois, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 316 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Virginia | 267 | not ranked | 4.0× |
| Illinois | 64 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 52 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 38 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 29 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| South Carolina | 27 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Breon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Breon is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1966 it was given 4.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Breon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,516 babies since 1880, Breon is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 99 babies (32%), again the second 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 Breon
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 Breon and names like it
- Compare Breon and BrennonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBreon peaked in 1994.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Breon since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Breon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Breon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.