Bretton
Bretton was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,262 among boys’ names; 1,106 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Bretton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 19 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bretton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bretton?
#7,262 among boys’ names, 2025
Bretton fell from #7,133 in 2015 to #7,262 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 6.4 per million.
36 babies in 1987, the peak
Bretton peaked in 1987, when 36 boys were given it, #1,792 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,262 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,143 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,515 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,096 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,757 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,591 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,455 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,076 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,740 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,671 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,133 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,274 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,488 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,267 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,613 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,278 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,353 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,256 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,313 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,141 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,313 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,036 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,844 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,676 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,914 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 29 | #2,998 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 32 | #2,666 | 16.7 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,396 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,753 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,923 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,207 | 18.9 |
| 1994 | 29 | #2,556 | 15.0 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,580 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,308 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,546 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,782 | 11.2 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,478 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,306 | 13.6 |
| 1987 | 36 | #1,792 | 19.3 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,101 | 14.7 |
| 1985 | 29 | #1,976 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,164 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,556 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,310 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,047 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,112 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,588 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,194 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,213 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,748 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,462 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 22 | #1,994 | 14.0 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,732 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,673 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,470 | 8.5 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,407 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,322 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,116 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,017 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,571 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 5 | #3,977 | 2.7 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,917 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,119 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,061 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,526 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bretton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bretton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bretton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bretton, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,106 Americans ever recorded as Bretton. The median Bretton alive today is 31 years old; half are between 19 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 957 people named Bretton (52 women and girls, 905 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,016 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 165 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 384 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 319 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 155 |
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,632 babies since 1880, Bretton is the second most given (30% of them).
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 Bretton
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 Bretton and names like it
- Compare Bretton and BertonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBretton peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bretton since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Bretton.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Bretton alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.