Breton Names

Explore names documented in Breton naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1912.

1,628#221
Down 64 rank positions in five years
1963

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

61#2,815
Down 646 rank positions in five years
1968

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1897.

129#1,620
Up 377 rank positions in five years
1957

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1991.

219#1,021
Up 139 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1918.

—Unranked
—
1955

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1968.

7#10,193
Down 4,621 rank positions in five years
2005

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1979.

—Unranked
—
1993

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1923.

—Unranked
—
1963

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1984.

11#7,655
Up 1,040 rank positions in five years
2006

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1920.

—Unranked
—
1944

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1972.

24#4,326
Up 5,815 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2001.

12#7,114
new
2018

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

19#5,056
Up 7,162 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1994.

19#6,293
Up 10,900 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1965.

7#12,970
new
2024

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2009.

5#12,920
Down 1,650 rank positions in five years
2022

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1994.

—Unranked
—
1994

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2020.

7#12,767
Down 5,647 rank positions in five years
2020

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1998.

—Unranked
—
2000

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2000.

6#11,796
new
2000

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2007.

—Unranked
—
2019

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2023.

5#13,575
new
2023

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2022.

—Unranked
—
2022

Recorded in Breton; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2023.

—Unranked
—
2023

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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