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Breda

Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Breda has been given to 91 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1962, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Breda, 1987

1 in 601,000

Breda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Breda: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Breda means

Breda has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Breda

A separate documented entry treats Breda as a form of Bríd. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

An additional editorial entry explicitly leaves the meaning of Breda uncertain. That qualification belongs to its own naming route, even when another tradition using the same spelling has a known translation. The spelling alone cannot decide which history a family intends.

Origin, language, and formation

Breda is used in Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Breda is pronounced /bréːda/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 91 girls were recorded with the name Breda between 1952 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1962; its best national rank was #4,565 in 1962.

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 Breda?

Breda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 601,000
6 of 3,605,072 births
Among girls only
1 in 290,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
416,475 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Breda 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 1987 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 416,475 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Breda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bredas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Breda was born before 1967 — so the typical Breda is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
91
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (39).

Is Breda 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 1962 (9)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,565
1962

Spellings of Breda

Breda is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 58.4% against Breda's <0.01%.

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 Breda is used

Across 1910–2025, Breda was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Breda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Breda around the world

Where Breda 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
    2005–2005
    #4,798
    in 2005
  • Ireland
    1964–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1962–1962
    #647
    in 1962

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Breda 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
#4,565
1962
Peak year
1962
9 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
91
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Breda

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

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Sibling names for Breda

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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