Breya
Breya was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,586 among girls’ names; 692 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Breya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Breya?
#6,586 among girls’ names, 2025
Breya fell from #5,006 in 2015 to #6,586 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 10.6 per million.
39 babies in 2005, the peak
Breya peaked in 2005, when 39 girls were given it, #3,744 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,586 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,647 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,708 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,927 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,448 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,695 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,013 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,564 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,092 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,458 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,006 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,826 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,442 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,826 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,088 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,693 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,737 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,385 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,600 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,626 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,744 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,403 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,104 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,283 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,013 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,219 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,542 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,601 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,846 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,443 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,245 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,697 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,227 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,074 | 10.3 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,946 | 5.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,980 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Breya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Breya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Breya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Breya, and how old are they?
An estimated 685 Americans named Breya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 529 people named Breya (525 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 573 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,124 babies since 1880, Breya is the fourth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 130 babies (13%), the third 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 Breya
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 Breya and names like it
- Compare Breya and BreeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBreya peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Breya since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Breya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Breya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.