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Breck

#2,999 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Breck has been given to 3,092 babies in the U.S. since 1945. In 2025 it ranked #2,999 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 86 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% boys, 14% girls all-time.

Babies named Breck, 2025

1 in 80,900

Breck over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Breck over time

In 2025, Breck went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19452025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Breck: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Breck means

Breck is a given name.

The naming story behind Breck

Wikidata records Breck as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q66263998, 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, 2,648 boys were recorded with the name Breck between 1945 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 86 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,246 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,799 in 2020 to #2,999 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,932 in 2015 to #2,999 in 2025.

In the United States, 444 girls were recorded with the name Breck between 1970 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2000; its best national rank was #5,712 in 1985.

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 Breck?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 41,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,999
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Breck sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Breck. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brecks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Breck was born before 2006 — so the typical Breck is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,616
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (735).

Is Breck 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
−322
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,200
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,067
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.7%
Peak was 2016 (86)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,246
1962

Spellings of Breck

Breck is not the most common spelling — Bruce is, with 35.0% against Breck's 0.24%.

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 Breck is used

Across 2016–2025, Breck was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 19,408 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

122 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 4,545
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 6,667
  3. 3Kansas1 in 9,091
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 9,091
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 16,667
  6. 6Texas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Iowa1 in 25,000
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Breck around the world

Where Breck 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.

  • Canada
    2005–2005
    #2,303
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1952–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Breck

People whose public names include Breck, 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.

Breck by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,999
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,200
Best rank ever
#1,246
1962
Peak year
2016
86 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,648
Count in 2025
41

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,712
1985
Peak year
2000
16 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
444
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Breck

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

BreonBrewerBrevinBrennonBreyonBrentlyBrextonBrendynBreckenBrendaBreckinBrennerBrenBreydenBrettonBeckBreesBretonBrentleyBrennenDereckBrenanBretBrekken

Names with a curve like Breck

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

FlintThaneMayerMendelSvenJeronimoCamLaineKavinThorBaronGentry

Sibling names for Breck

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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