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Bre

Girls' name

Diminutive of Breanna

Bre has been given to 461 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Bre, 2023

1 in 552,000

Bre over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bre: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Breanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bre means

Bre is a diminutive of Breanna.

Origin, language, and formation

Bre is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Breanna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 461 girls were recorded with the name Bre between 1972 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2006; its best national rank was #4,533 in 1994.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bre?

Bre had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bre sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bre was born before 1998 — so the typical Bre is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
461
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (142).

Is Bre rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (31)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,533
1994

Where Bre is used

Across 1910–2025, Bre was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 498,591 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bre has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bre around the world

Where Bre ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bre by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,533
1994
Peak year
2006
31 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
461
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bre

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bre

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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