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Brea

#3,073 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Brea has been given to 5,739 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #3,073 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 268 recorded.

Babies named Brea, 2025

1 in 62,600

Brea 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brea: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brea means

Brea is a given name.

The naming story behind Brea

Wikidata records Brea as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q21130116, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,739 girls were recorded with the name Brea between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 268 in 1993; its best national rank was #770 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,159 in 2020 to #3,073 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,815 in 2015 to #3,073 in 2025.

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.

How common is Brea?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 62,600
53 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 30,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,073
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
43,358 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brea 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 2025 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 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Breas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brea was born before 2000 — so the typical Brea is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,739
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (1,795).

Is Brea 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
+56
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−914
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,258
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.8%
Peak was 1993 (268)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#770
1993

Spellings of Brea

Brea is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 41.5% against Brea's 0.39%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Brea is used

Across 2016–2025, Brea was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 40,851 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 25,000
  4. 4New York1 in 33,333
  5. 5Ohio1 in 33,333
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 33,333
  7. 7Michigan1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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.

Brea around the world

Where Brea 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2022
    #625
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2007–2025
    #290
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Brea

People whose public names include Brea, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Brea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,073
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 914
Best rank ever
#770
1993
Peak year
1993
268 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,739
Count in 2025
53

Names similar to Brea

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

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Names with a curve like Brea

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Brea, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Brea

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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